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  • Molecular Biology

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  • Cognitive decline in old age poses a significant health challenge, with the hippocampus being particularly vulnerable.
  • Maintaining optimal brain function throughout life is crucial, and environmental enrichment (EE) is known to benefit hippocampal integrity.
  • Lifelong deprivation can lead to cognitive impairments, making it important to study interventions for aged individuals.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effects of late-onset environmental enrichment (EE) on cognitive function in aged mice with lifelong deprivation.
  • To analyze how late-onset EE influences gene expression in the hippocampus of aging mice.
  • To determine if EE can reverse existing cognitive deficits and alter the hippocampal transcriptome.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized Barnes maze task to assess spatial learning and memory in 5- and 24-month-old mice under standard conditions and in aged mice exposed to EE.
  • Performed next-generation RNA sequencing on hippocampal tissue to analyze gene expression changes.
  • Compared gene expression profiles between young (5mSC), aged (24mSC), and aged mice with late-onset EE (24mEE).

Main Results:

  • Late-onset EE significantly restored deficits in spatial learning and short-term memory in 24-month-old mice.
  • EE induced more transcriptional changes in the hippocampus than aging itself (1311 DEGs in 24mEE vs. 24mSC).
  • A subset of 72 age-related differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were counter-regulated by EE, including key regulators of synaptic plasticity and aging pathways.

Conclusions:

  • The brains of aged mice in standard housing retain significant plasticity.
  • Late-onset environmental enrichment is a promising, non-pharmacological intervention to counteract age-related cognitive decline.
  • EE modulates hippocampal gene expression, impacting pathways related to senescence, insulin resistance, and neural plasticity.