Animal models of Alzheimer's disease: preclinical insights and challenges

QQ Xu, W Yang, M Zhong, ZX Lin, NE Gray… - Acta Materia …, 2023 - scienceopen.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD), an irreversible neurodegenerative disease that progressively
impairs memory and cognitive judgment, severely affects the quality of life and imposes a …

Animal and cellular models of Alzheimer's disease: Progress, promise, and future approaches

L Trujillo-Estrada, E Sanchez-Mejias… - The …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease affecting over 45
million people worldwide. Transgenic mouse models have made remarkable contributions …

Transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer disease: developing a better model as a tool for therapeutic interventions

M Kitazawa, R Medeiros… - Current pharmaceutical …, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia among elderly. Currently, no
effective treatment is available for AD. Analysis of transgenic mouse models of AD has …

Animal models of Alzheimer disease: historical pitfalls and a path forward

SE Cavanaugh, JJ Pippin, ND Barnard - ALTEX-Alternatives to animal …, 2014 - altex.org
Alzheimer disease (AD) is a medically and financially overwhelming condition, and
incidence rates are expected to triple by 2050. Despite decades of research in animal …

Translational animal models for Alzheimer's disease: an Alzheimer's association business consortium think tank

MP Vitek, JA Araujo, M Fossel… - … Research & Clinical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Over 5 million Americans and 50 million individuals worldwide are living with Alzheimer's
disease (AD). The progressive dementia associated with AD currently has no cure. Although …

Past to future: what animal models have taught us about Alzheimer's disease

AC Martini, S Forner, L Trujillo-Estrada… - Journal of …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) impairs memory and causes significant cognitive deficits. The
disease course is prolonged, with a poor prognosis, and thus exacts an enormous economic …

Leveraging preclinical models for the development of Alzheimer disease therapeutics

K Scearce-Levie, PE Sanchez… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
A large number of mouse models have been engineered, characterized and used to
advance biomedical research in Alzheimer disease (AD). Early models simply damaged the …

Animal models in the development of symptomatic and preventive drug therapies for Alzheimer's disease

P Riekkinen, BH Schmidt, FJ van der Staay - Annals of medicine, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
Dementia of the Alzheimer type (AD) is clinically characterized by a progressive
deterioration of intellect, memory, judgment, and abstract thinking. It is incurable, and causal …

Rodent models for Alzheimer disease

J Götz, LG Bodea, M Goedert - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Animal models are indispensable tools for Alzheimer disease (AD) research. Over the
course of more than two decades, an increasing number of complementary rodent models …

Modeling Alzheimer's disease with non-transgenic rat models

L Lecanu, V Papadopoulos - Alzheimer's research & therapy, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Alzheimer's disease (AD), for which there is no cure, is the most common form of
dementia in the elderly. Despite tremendous efforts by the scientific community, the AD drug …