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Chapter 1 The Contribution of Transgenic Models to the Understanding of Alzheimer's Disease Progression and Therapeutic Development |
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1.3 Modelling Plaques and Tangles |
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1.4 Mechanisms of Disease Progression |
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1.5 Therapeutic Development in Transgenic Models |
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Chapter 2 Animal Models of Amyloid/PS-1 Pathology |
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2.2 APP Transgenic Mouse Models |
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2.2.1 PDAPP Transgenic Mouse Model |
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2.2.2 Tg2576 Transgenic Mouse Model |
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2.2.3 APP23 Transgenic Mouse Model |
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2.2.4 APP Dutch Transgenic Mouse Model |
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2.2.5 CRND8 Transgenic Mouse Model |
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2.2.6 J20 Transgenic Mouse Model |
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2.2.7 APPSwDI/NOS2-/- Transgenic Mouse Model |
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2.2.8 Adeno-associated Virus (AAV)-mediated Gene Transfer of BRI-Aβ |
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2.2.9 Humanized Aβ Transgenic Mouse Models |
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2.2.10 Amyloid Degradation |
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2.3 Other Transgenic Mouse Models |
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2.3.1 Physiological and Pathological Roles of PS-1 |
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2.3.2 PS-1 Transgenic Mouse Model |
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2.4 hAPP Mouse Models and Treatment of AD |
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Chapter 3 The Ying and Yang of the Reelin Signalling Pathway in Alzheimer's Disease Pathology |
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3.1 The Extracellular Matrix Protein Reelin in the Developing and Adult Brain |
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3.2 Generation of Conditional Transgenic Mice Overexpressing Reelin in the Adult Forebrain: A Tool to Dissect Reelin Functions in the Adult Brain |
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3.3 Potential Role of Reelin in Alzheimer's Disease: A Unifying Hypothesis Linking Reelin to Amyloid Deposits, Tangles and Stress |
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Chapter 4 Transgenic Mice Overexpressing GSK-3β as Animal Models for Alzheimer's Disease |
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4.2 Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 |
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4.3 Alzheimer's Disease and Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 |
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4.4 Mouse Models Overexpressing Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 |
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4.5 Animal Models with Reduced Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 Activity |
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4.6 GSK-3 Inhibition as a Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease |
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Chapter 5 Invertebrate and Vertebrate Models of Tauopathies |
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5.2.1 Wild-type Tau Transgenic Mice |
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5.2.2 Mutant Tau Transgenic Mice |
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5.2.3 Invertebrate and Non-rodent Models |
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Chapter 6 Animal Models of Parkinson's Disease |
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6.2.1 Animal Models Based on Manipulation of Alpha-synuclein |
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6.2.3 Models of Recessive Parkinson's Disease |
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6.3.1 Mitochondrial Toxins |
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6.3.3 Proteasome Inhibition |
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Chapter 7 Animal Models and the Pathogenesis of Parkinson's Disease |
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7.2 Genetics of Parkinson's Disease |
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7.2.1 Alpha-Synuclein: PARK1/4 |
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7.2.3 PARKIN/PARK2 and PINK1/PARK6 |
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7.3 Environmental Factors in PD Pathology |
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7.3.2 Inflammatory Response |
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7.4 Protein Aggregation (Proteostasis) in PD |
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7.6 Mitochondrial Dysfunction and PD |
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7.7 Learning from Models to Master a Complex Disease: Channels and Challenges |
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Chapter 8 Neuroprotection in Parkinson's Disease |
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8.1 Neurotrophism and Neurotrophic Factors |
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8.2 Neuroprotection of Mesencephalic Dopaminergic Neurons: Role of GDNF |
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8.2.1 Biology of GDNF and Other Dopaminotrophic Factors |
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8.2.2 Dopaminotrophic Factor-Mediated Neuronal Protection |
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8.3 Genetic Models of NTF Depletion: Conditional GDNF Knock-out Mice |
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8.4 Clinical Effects of GDNF |
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8.5 Conclusions and Perspectives |
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Chapter 9 Animal Models for ALS |
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9.2.1 Genes Related to Familial ALS |
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9.2.2 Genes Related to Sporadic ALS |
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9.3 SOD1 Mouse Model of ALS |
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9.3.2 SOD1 Mutant Transgenic Mice |
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9.4 Genetic Modifiers of ALS Mouse Model |
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9.4.1 Glutamate Excitotoxicity |
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9.4.2 Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Apoptosis |
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9.4.3 Effects of Non-neuronal Cell Activation in ALS |
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9.4.4 Axonal Transport Blockade |
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9.4.5 Depletion of Neurotrophic Factors |
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9.4.6 Protein Misfolding and Aggregation |
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9.4.7 Neurofilament Defects |
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9.4.8 Inflammatory Cytokines |
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9.5 Protein Degradation in ALS Transgenic Mouse Model |
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9.6 SOD1 Transgenic Rat Model of ALS |
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9.7 VAPB Transgenic Mouse |
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9.8 Alsin Transgenic Mouse |
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9.8.2 Alsin Knock-out Mice |
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9.8.3 Phenotypes of Alsin Knock-out Mice |
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9.9 Transgenic Mutant TDP-43 Rodent |
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9.9.2 Mutant TDP-43 Transgenic Mice |
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9.9.4 Mutant TDP-43 Transgenic Rats |
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Chapter 10 Animal Models for Huntington's Disease |
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10.1 Huntington's Disease |
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10.2 Invertebrate Models of Huntington's Disease |
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10.2.1 Caenorhabditis elegans |
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10.2.2 Drosophila melanogaster |
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10.3 Vertebrate Models of Huntington's Disease |
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Chapter 11 Mouse Models of Prion Protein Related Diseases |
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11.2 Notes on PrP Biology |
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11.2.1 Molecular and Structural Diversity of PrPC |
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11.2.2 PrPC Conversion: Prions, Amyloids and Other Toxic Forms |
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11.3 Phenotyping PrPC Function: Ablation and Overexpression |
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11.3.1 PrPC Ablation: Hints from Losing PrPC Function |
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11.3.2 PrPC Overexpression also Leads to Pathology |
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11.3.3 Sensitivity to Prion Infection: Dose and Site of PrPC Expression |
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11.4 Models for PrPC Function---Structure Relationship: Spontaneous Generation of Disease or Increased Sensitivity to Acquisition |
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11.4.1 Chain Length, Motifs and Covalent Modifications |
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11.4.2 Sorting Signals: Hydrophobic Regions and their Messages |
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11.4.3 Posttranslational Covalent Modifications: Glycosylations and Disulfide Bond |
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11.5 Inherited Disease and Structurally-based Mutations: Susceptibility to Misfolding and Sensitization to Prion Infection |
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11.5.1 Genetic CJD and its Mouse Models: Non-transmissible Spontaneous Degeneration |
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11.5.2 Genetic GSS and its Mouse Models: Dose-dependent Spontaneous Diseases with no Transmissibility |
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11.5.3 FFI and its Mouse Models: Transmissible Spontaneous Disease with Undetectable PrPres |
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11.5.4 Structural-designed Mutations for Spontaneous Disorder: Spontaneous Disease with Full Transmissibility and PrPres |
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11.5.5 A Molecular Switch Defining Cross-species Barriers for Prion Infections |
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Chapter 12 Mouse Models of Ischemia |
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12.2 Stroke: Incidence, Causes and Definitions |
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12.2.1 Stroke: Terms and Conditions |
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12.2.2 Transient vs. Permanent Ischemia |
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12.3 Pathophysiology of Ischemic Brain Injury: Penumbra, Cell Death and Neuroprotection |
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12.3.1 Cause of Tissue Injury in Ischemia |
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12.3.2 Post-stroke Repair |
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12.3.3 Neuroprotection and Translation |
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12.4 Mouse Models of Ischemia |
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12.4.2 Tools of the Trade |
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12.4.3 Surgical Occlusion of the Middle Cerebral Artery |
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12.4.4 Intraluminal Filament Occlusion |
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12.4.5 Thromboembolic Occlusion |
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12.4.7 Endothelin/vasoconstrictors |
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12.4.8 Global Ischemia Models |
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12.5 Problems and Pitfalls Specific to Mouse Models of Ischemia |
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12.5.1 General Challenges for Modelling Stroke in Mice |
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12.5.2 Inter-strain Differences in Intrinsic Vulnerability to Excitotoxicity |
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12.6 Other Problems and Pitfalls of Mouse Models |
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12.6.3 Narrow Temporal Relationship Between Occlusion Duration and Infarction |
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12.6.4 Animal Age, Co-morbidities and Other Variables |
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12.7 Ischemic Tolerance in Mice |
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Chapter 13 A Non-transgenic Rat Model of Sporadic Alzheimer's Disease |
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13.2 A Mechanism of AD Involving Cleavage of SETα |
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13.3 Generation of an AAV1-I2CTF Rat Model of AD |
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