Table 3

Summary of various effects of Aβ and CT

CTFReference
Neurotoxicity
 Cultured cells + +10 Kim and Suh, 1996; Marcon et al., 1999; Lee et al., 2000a
 in vivo i.c.v. + +++ + Song et al., 1998; Choi et al., 2001
 Transgenic mice
 Neuritic plaques

+++

+++
Kammesheidt et al., 1992; Nalbantoglu et al., 1997; Sato et al., 1997
Channel effect
Xenopusoocytes +++ Fraser et al., 1996;1997; Kim et al., 2002
 Purkinje cells +++ Hartell and Suh, 2000
 Lipid bilayer + ++ Arispe et al., 1993; Kim et al., 1999
 Intracellular Ca2+ + +++ Kim et al., 1999, 2002;McKeon-O'Malley et al., 1999
LTP hippocampus + +++ Cullen et al., 1997;Nalbautoglu et al., 1997; Kim et al., 2001
 Learning and memory impairment + +++ Kammesheidt et al., 1992;Nalbantoglu et al., 1997; Sato et al., 1997; Song et al., 1998; Choi et al., 2001
 Cholinergic deficit + +++ Choi et al., 2001
Free radical generation +++
 NO generation + +++ Rah et al., 2001; Bach et al., 2001
 MAPK signaling + +++ Rah et al., 2001; Chong et al., 2001; Bach et al., 2001
 NF-κB + +++ Rah et al., 2001; Chong et al., 2001; Bach et al., 2001
 Nuclear translocation +++ DeGiorgio et al., 2000;Cao and Sudhof, 2001; Kimberly et al., 2001; Gao and Pimplikar, 2001; Kim et al., 2002
Inflammatory cytokines and chemokines + +++ Rah et al., 2001; Chong et al., 2001
 Gliosis and astrocytosis + +++ Song et al., 1998;Rah et al., 2001; Bach et al., 2001