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A mouse model of heritable cerebrovascular disease.
PloS one - 31 Dec 2010
Sproule Thomas J, Sled John G, Wentzell Jill, Wang Bing, Henkelman R Mark, Roopenian Derry C, Burgess Robert W
Abstract excerpt
The study of animal models of heritable cerebrovascular diseases can improve our understanding of disease mechanisms, identify candidate genes for related human disorders, and provide experimental models for preclinical trials. Here we describe a spontaneous mouse mutation that results in reproducible, adult-onset, progressive, focal ischemia in the brain. The pathology is not the result of hemorrhage, embolism,...
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