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Transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease.
The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York - 1 Jan 2000
Elder Gregory A, Gama Sosa Miguel A, De Gasperi Rita
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of senile dementia in the United States and Europe. At present, there is no effective treatment. Given the disease's prevalence and poor prognosis, the development of animal models has been a high research priority. Transgenic modeling has been pursued on the basis of the amyloid hypothesis and has taken advantage of mutations in the amyloid precursor protein and the...
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