Environmental enrichment strengthens corticocortical interactions and reduces amyloid-beta oligomers in aged mice (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Environmental enrichment strengthens corticocortical interactions and reduces amyloid-beta oligomers in aged mice (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2014-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00001 (literal)
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  • Mainardi, Marco; Di Garbo, Angelo; Caleo, Matteo; Berardi, Nicoletta; Sale, Alessandro; Maffei, Lamberto (2014)
    Environmental enrichment strengthens corticocortical interactions and reduces amyloid-beta oligomers in aged mice
    in Frontiers in aging neuroscience
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  • Mainardi, Marco; Di Garbo, Angelo; Caleo, Matteo; Berardi, Nicoletta; Sale, Alessandro; Maffei, Lamberto (literal)
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  • 6 (literal)
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  • Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR); Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR); University of Florence; Accademia Lincei (literal)
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  • Environmental enrichment strengthens corticocortical interactions and reduces amyloid-beta oligomers in aged mice (literal)
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  • Brain aging is characterized by global changes which are thought to underlie age-related cognitive decline. These include variations in brain activity and the progressive increase in the concentration of soluble amyloid-beta (A beta) oligomers, directly impairing synaptic function and plasticity even in the absence of any neurodegenerative disorder. Considering the high social impact of the decline in brain performance associated to aging, there is an urgent need to better understand how it can be prevented or contrasted. Lifestyle components, such as social interaction, motor exercise and cognitive activity, are thought to modulate brain physiology and its susceptibility to age-related pathologies. However, the precise functional and molecular factors that respond to environmental stimuli and might mediate their protective action again pathological aging still need to be clearly identified. To address this issue, we exploited environmental enrichment (EE), a reliable model for studying the effect of experience on the brain based on the enhancement of cognitive, social and motor experience, in aged wild-type mice. We analyzed the functional consequences of EE on aged brain physiology by performing in vivo local field potential (LFP) recordings with chronic implants. In addition, we also investigated changes induced by EE on molecular markers of neural plasticity and on the levels of soluble A beta oligomers. We report that EE induced profound changes in the activity of the primary visual and auditory cortices and in their functional interaction. At the molecular level, EE enhanced plasticity by an upward shift of the cortical excitation/inhibition balance. In addition, EE reduced brain A13 oligomers and increased synthesis of the A beta-degrading enzyme neprilysin. Our findings strengthen the potential of EE procedures as a non-invasive paradigm for counteracting brain aging processes. (literal)
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