Article
Disrupted cerebellar cortical development and progressive degeneration of Purkinje cells in SV40 T antigen transgenic mice.
Neuron - 1 Nov 1992
Feddersen R M, Ehlenfeldt R, Yunis W S, Clark H B, Orr H T
Abstract excerpt
SV40 T antigen (Tag) expression directed to cerebellar Purkinje cells resulted in the generation of three transgenic mouse lines that displayed ataxia, a neurological phenotype characteristic of cerebellar dysfunction. Onset of symptoms and cerebellar pathology, characterized by specific Purkinje cell degeneration, appeared to be directly dependent upon transgene copy number. The SV5 line (containing > 30...
Topics
- Animals
- Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming
- Ataxia
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southern
- Cell Death
- Cell Division
- Cell Movement
- Cerebellar Cortex
- Gene Expression
- Genes, Viral
