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Long-term social isolation exacerbates the impairment of spatial working memory in APP/PS1 transgenic mice.
Brain research - 31 Jan 2011
Huang Hei-Jen, Liang Keng-Chen, Ke Hsing-Chieh, Chang Yen-Yu, Hsieh-Li Hsiu Mei
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The interaction between gene and environment is known to play a major role in the etiology of several neuropsychiatric disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). The present study evaluated whether environmental manipulations such as social isolation may affect the genetic predisposition to accelerate the onset of AD-related symptoms in an adult APP/PS1 double mutant transgenic mouse model. Transgenic and...
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