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Parkinsonism and impaired axonal transport in a mouse model of frontotemporal dementia.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Oct 2008
Ittner Lars M, Fath Thomas, Ke Yazi D, Bi Mian, van Eersel Janet, Li Kong M, Gunning Peter, Götz Jürgen
Abstract excerpt
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is characterized by cognitive and behavioral changes and, in a significant subset of patients, Parkinsonism. Histopathologically, FTD frequently presents with tau-containing lesions, which in familial cases result from mutations in the MAPT gene encoding tau. Here we present a novel transgenic mouse strain (K3) that expresses human tau carrying the FTD mutation K369I. K3 mice develop...
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