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Lamivudine, a Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor, Rescues Cognitive Deficits in a Mouse Model of Down Syndrome
2021-12-20
Abstract excerpt
An elevated activity of retrotransposons is increasingly recognized to be implicated in a wide range of neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental diseases. Down syndrome (DS) is the most common genetic disorder associated with intellectual disability and a genetic form of Alzheimer’s disease. For this reason, we hypothesized that treatment with reverse transcriptase inhibitors could ameliorate DS phenotypes. In thi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 81af116d-5876-5798-a813-5a4d525d88a7
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1158032/v1
