High-sucrose diets contribute to brain angiopathy with impaired glucose uptake and psychosis-related higher brain dysfunctions in mice
Shinobu Hirai, Hideki Miwa, Tomoko Tanaka, Kazuya Toriumi, Yasuto Kunii, Hiroko Shimbo, Takuya Sakamoto, Mizuki Hino, Ryuta Izumi, Atsuko Nagaoka, Hirooki Yabe, Tomoya Nakamachi, Seiji Shioda, Takashi Dan, Toshio Miyata, Yasumasa Nishito, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Mitsuhiro Miyashita, Toshifumi Tomoda, Takatoshi Hikida, Junjiro Horiuchi, Masanari Itokawa, Makoto Arai, Haruo Okado
Abstract
-deficient mice. Aspirin protected against this angiopathy, enhancing brain glucose uptake and preventing abnormal behavioral phenotypes. Similar vascular damage to our model mice was found in the brains of randomly collected schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients, suggesting that psychiatric disorders are associated with angiopathy in the brain caused by various environmental stresses, including metabolic stress.