Genetic mouse models of Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases: illuminating but imperfect.

Abstract:

:Genetic mouse models based on identification of genes that cause Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases have revolutionized understanding of the mechanistic pathophysiological progression of these disorders. These models allow the earliest manifestations of the diseases to be identified, and they display behavioral, neuropathological and electrophysiological deficits that can be followed over time in mechanistic and drug studies. An intriguing feature is that they do not reproduce the relatively selective and massive cell loss characterizing the human diseases. There is more information on Huntington's disease models because the disorder involves a single gene that was identified over ten years ago; genetic mutations causing Parkinson's disease are rare and were discovered more recently, and models of the disease have been generated only within the past few years.

journal_name

Trends Neurosci

journal_title

Trends in neurosciences

authors

Levine MS,Cepeda C,Hickey MA,Fleming SM,Chesselet MF

doi

10.1016/j.tins.2004.08.008

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-11-01 00:00:00

pages

691-7

issue

11

eissn

0166-2236

issn

1878-108X

pii

S0166-2236(04)00274-7

journal_volume

27

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