TY - GEN AB - Due to their genetic, behavioral, and physiological similarities to humans, rhesus macaques (Macacca mulatta) have long been used as a translational model in biomedical research. However, studies using very old monkeys have been impeded by lack of access to animals of advanced age. As the average lifespan of a rhesus macaque is reported to be 25 years, acquiring animals of this age can be both time- and cost-prohibitive. Our laboratory, via a collaborative pooling of resources, has access to postmortem tissue from a cohort containing some of the oldest known macaques in the world, with three animals having lived more than 40 years. Due to this unique resource, we are able to examine whether specific normative or pathological brain aging processes occur in the macaque brain. Specifically, we are interested in whether the rhesus monkey naturally develops Alzheimer's disease (AD) phenotypes. AD - Oregon Health and Science University AD - Oregon Health and Science University AD - Oregon Health and Science University AD - Oregon Health and Science University AD - Oregon Health and Science University AD - Oregon Health and Science University AD - Oregon Health and Science University AU - Stonebarger, Gail AU - Brown, D.I. AU - Krajbich, V.K. AU - Woltjer, R.L. AU - Rosene, Doug L. AU - Urbanksi, H.F. AU - Kohama, Steve G. DA - 2020 DO - 10.6083/f4752h38h DO - DOI ED - Mattison, Julie ED - Collaborator ID - 8331 KW - Aging KW - Alzheimer's Disease KW - Cognition KW - Macaca mulatta KW - Immunohistochemistry KW - biosensors KW - nonhuman primate KW - tau KW - neurodegeneration KW - amyloid beta plaques L1 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/8331/files/ResearchWeek.2020.Stonebarger.Gail.pdf L2 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/8331/files/ResearchWeek.2020.Stonebarger.Gail.pdf L4 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/8331/files/ResearchWeek.2020.Stonebarger.Gail.pdf LK - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/8331/files/ResearchWeek.2020.Stonebarger.Gail.pdf N2 - Due to their genetic, behavioral, and physiological similarities to humans, rhesus macaques (Macacca mulatta) have long been used as a translational model in biomedical research. However, studies using very old monkeys have been impeded by lack of access to animals of advanced age. As the average lifespan of a rhesus macaque is reported to be 25 years, acquiring animals of this age can be both time- and cost-prohibitive. Our laboratory, via a collaborative pooling of resources, has access to postmortem tissue from a cohort containing some of the oldest known macaques in the world, with three animals having lived more than 40 years. Due to this unique resource, we are able to examine whether specific normative or pathological brain aging processes occur in the macaque brain. Specifically, we are interested in whether the rhesus monkey naturally develops Alzheimer's disease (AD) phenotypes. PB - Oregon Health and Science University PY - 2020 T1 - The aged rhesus macaque hippocampus exhibits previously undetected pathological tau TI - The aged rhesus macaque hippocampus exhibits previously undetected pathological tau UR - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/8331/files/ResearchWeek.2020.Stonebarger.Gail.pdf Y1 - 2020 ER -