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Characterization of a novel transgenic rat carrying human tau with mutation P301L.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Dec 2011
Korhonen P, van Groen T, Thornell A, Kyrylenko S, Soininen M-L, Ojala J, Peltomaa E, Tanila H, Salminen A, Mandelkow E M, Soininen H
Abstract excerpt
We have established a novel transgenic rat line carrying human microtubule-associated protein Tau-40 with mutation P301L. hTau-40/P301L transgenic male and female rats were followed up to 2 years of age. The hTau-40/P301L rats expressed human tau mRNA and protein in the limbic cortex and associated white matter, hippocampus and spinal cord. With increasing age, the staining density for phosphorylated tau...
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