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Dendrite and dendritic spine alterations in Alzheimer models.
Journal of neurocytology - 1 May 2004
Moolman Donna L, Vitolo Ottavio V, Vonsattel Jean-Paul G, Shelanski Michael L
Abstract excerpt
Synaptic damage and loss are factors that affect the degree of dementia experienced in Alzheimer disease (AD) patients. Multicolor DiOlistic labeling of the hippocampus has been undertaken which allows the full dendritic arbor of targeted neurons to be imaged. Using this labeling technique the neuronal morphology of two transgenic mouse lines (J20 and APP/PS1) expressing mutant forms of the Amyloid Precursor...
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