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- Title
Detection of amyloid plaques in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease by magnetic resonance imaging.
- Authors
Zhang, Jiangyang; Yarowsky, Paul; Gordon, Marcia N.; Di Carlo, Giovanni; Munireddy, Sanjay; van Zijl, Peter C.M.; Mori, Susumu
- Abstract
We performed three-dimensional, high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of fixed mouse brains to determine whether MRI can detect amyloid plaques in transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease. Plaque-like structures in the cortex and hippocampus could be clearly identified in T2-weighted images with an image resolution of 46 μm × 72 μm × 72 μm. The locations of plaques were confirmed in coregistration studies comparing MR images with Congo red-stained histological results. This technique is quantitative, less labor-intensive compared to histology, and is free from artifacts related to sectioning process (deformation and missing tissues). It enabled us to study the distribution of plaques in the entire brain in 3D. The results of this study suggest that this method may be useful for assessing treatment efficacy in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Magn Reson Med 51:452-457, 2004. © 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
- Publication
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2004, Vol 51, Issue 3, p452
- ISSN
0740-3194
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/mrm.10730