• mice develop two types of amyloid plaques beginning at 9 months of age, either compact, typically round (compact) plaque which are seen at early stages or fluffy amyloid beta material (diffuse) plaque which are seen at later stages
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• at 12 months of age, plaques are seen in the frontal, parietal, occipital, cingulate, and temporal cortices, in the hippocampus, and in the white matter, most often in the corpus callosum
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• at 18 months, amyloid beta deposits develop in the entorhinal and piriform cortices such that 21 months, density is high in the piriform cortex but relatively low in the entorhinal cortex
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• at 18 months, plaques spread to extracortical sites, mainly to the striatum and septum and at 21 months, they are seen in the colliculi (thalamus, amygdala, olfactory bulb, and olfactory nucleus but not in the cerebellum, pons, or medulla oblongata
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• mice develop vascular amylod-beta deposits in leptomeningeal vessels and their larger intracortical branches at 12 months of age
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• however, mice do not develop neurofibrillary tangles or show signs of neurodegeneration
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