Mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

AM Hall, ED Roberson - Brain research bulletin, 2012 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, affecting 35 million people
today. The search for new treatments is made ever more urgent by prospects for increasing …

Comparative analysis of cortical gene expression in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

ZL Wu, JR Ciallella, DG Flood, TM O'Kane… - Neurobiology of …, 2006 - Elsevier
Three mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) were used to assess changes in gene
expression potentially critical to amyloid β-peptide (Aβ)-induced neuronal dysfunction. One …

Transgenic models of Alzheimer's disease: learning from animals

TL Spires, BT Hyman - NeuroRx, 2005 - Elsevier
As the scope of the problem of Alzheimer's disease (AD) grows due to an aging population,
research into the devastating condition has taken on added urgency. Rare inherited forms of …

Amyloid deposition precedes tangle formation in a triple transgenic model of Alzheimer's disease

S Oddo, A Caccamo, M Kitazawa, BP Tseng… - Neurobiology of …, 2003 - Elsevier
Amyloid-β (Aβ) containing plaques and tau-laden neurofibrillary tangles are the defining
neuropathological features of Alzheimer's disease (AD). To better mimic this …

Modeling behavioral and neuronal symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in mice: a role for intraneuronal amyloid

L Gimenez-Llort, G Blazquez, T Canete… - Neuroscience & …, 2007 - Elsevier
The amyloid Aβ-peptide (Aβ) is suspected to play a critical role in the cascade leading to AD
as the pathogen that causes neuronal and synaptic dysfunction and, eventually, cell death …

Soluble Aβ promotes wild-type tau pathology in vivo

MA Chabrier, M Blurton-Jones… - Journal of …, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
Growing evidence suggests that soluble Aβ species can drive Alzheimer disease (AD)
pathogenesis by inducing a cascade of events including tau hyperphosphorylation …

APP transgenic modeling of Alzheimer's disease: mechanisms of neurodegeneration and aberrant neurogenesis

L Crews, E Rockenstein, E Masliah - Brain Structure and Function, 2010 - Springer
Neurodegenerative disorders of the aging population affect over 5 million people in the US
and Europe alone. The common feature is the progressive accumulation of misfolded …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling Alzheimer's disease with iPSCs reveals stress phenotypes associated with intracellular Aβ and differential drug responsiveness

T Kondo, M Asai, K Tsukita, Y Kutoku, Y Ohsawa… - Cell stem cell, 2013 - cell.com
Oligomeric forms of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) are thought to play a pivotal role in the
pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the mechanism involved is still unclear. Here …

Oligomeric Aβ in the monkey brain impacts synaptic integrity and induces accelerated cortical aging

D Beckman, S Ott, K Donis-Cox… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
As the average age of the population continues to rise, the number of individuals affected
with age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease (AD) has increased and is …

Progress toward valid transgenic mouse models for Alzheimer's disease

SY Guénette, RE Tanzi - Neurobiology of aging, 1999 - Elsevier
A transgenic mouse model for Alzheimer's disease (AD) should mimic the age-dependent
accumulation of β-amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, neuronal cell death as well as …