PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Jing Ai AU - Li-Hua Sun AU - Hui Che AU - Rong Zhang AU - Tian-Zhu Zhang AU - Wan-Chen Wu AU - Xiao-Lin Su AU - Xin Chen AU - Guang Yang AU - Kang Li AU - Ning Wang AU - Tao Ban AU - Ya-Nan Bao AU - Fei Guo AU - Hui-Fang Niu AU - Yu-Lan Zhu AU - Xiu-Ying Zhu AU - Shi-Guang Zhao AU - Bao-Feng Yang TI - <em>MicroRNA-195</em> Protects Against Dementia Induced by Chronic Brain Hypoperfusion via Its Anti-Amyloidogenic Effect in Rats AID - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1997-12.2013 DP - 2013 Feb 27 TA - The Journal of Neuroscience PG - 3989--4001 VI - 33 IP - 9 4099 - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/9/3989.short 4100 - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/9/3989.full SO - J. Neurosci.2013 Feb 27; 33 AB - Previous studies have demonstrated that chronic brain hypoperfusion (CBH) causes Aβ aggregation by upregulating expression of amyloid precursor protein (APP) and β-site APP cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1) protein, which is accompanied by cognitive impairment, but the mechanisms are not fully understood. In this study, we evaluated the effect of microRNA on memory impairment in rats induced by CBH. We show here that CBH generated by bilateral common carotid artery occlusion (2VO) significantly decreased the learning and memory ability in rats, as assessed by Morris water maze, and upregulated expression of APP and BACE1 proteins in the hippocampus and cortex of rats, as evaluated by Western blot and immunofluorescence. In reciprocal, qRT-PCR analysis showed that microRNA-195 (miR-195) was downregulated in both the hippocampus and cortex of rats following CBH, and in the plasma of dementia patients. APP and BACE1 proteins were downregulated by miR-195 overexpression, upregulated by miR-195 inhibition, and unchanged by binding-site mutation or miR-masks, indicating that APP and BACE1 are two potential targets for miR-195. Knockdown of endogenous miR-195 by lentiviral vector-mediated overexpression of its antisense molecule (lenti-pre-AMO-miR-195) elicited dementia in rats, whereas overexpression of miR-195 using lenti-pre-miR-195 reduced dementia vulnerability triggered by 2VO. Additionally, chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis showed that NFκB was bound to the promoter region of miR-195 and inhibited its expression. We conclude that miR-195 may play a key role in determining dementia susceptibility in 2VO rats by regulating APP and BACE1 expression at the post-transcriptional level, and exogenous complement of miR-195 may be a potentially valuable anti-dementia approach.