Environmental factors as modulators of neurodegeneration: Insights from gene–environment interactions in Huntington's disease

C Mo, AJ Hannan, T Renoir - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Unlike many other neurodegenerative diseases with established gene–environment
interactions, Huntington's disease (HD) is viewed as a disorder governed by genetics. The …

A review of ultrasonic vocalizations in mice and how they relate to human speech

K Yao, M Bergamasco, ML Scattoni… - The Journal of the …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Mice communicate through audible vocalizations, which are within the human hearing
range, and ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs), which are above the upper limit of human …

Quantifying ultrasonic mouse vocalizations using acoustic analysis in a supervised statistical machine learning framework

AP Vogel, A Tsanas, ML Scattoni - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Examination of rodent vocalizations in experimental conditions can yield valuable insights
into how disease manifests and progresses over time. It can also be used as an index of …

A touchscreen motivation assessment evaluated in Huntington's disease patients and R6/1 model mice

CJ Heath, C O'Callaghan, SL Mason… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Apathy is pervasive across many neuropsychiatric disorders but is poorly characterized
mechanistically, so targeted therapeutic interventions remain elusive. A key impediment has …

What's wrong with my mouse cage? Methodological considerations for modeling lifestyle factors and gene–environment interactions in mice

C Mo, T Renoir, AJ Hannan - Journal of neuroscience methods, 2016 - Elsevier
The mechanistic understanding of lifestyle contributions to disease has been largely driven
by work in laboratory rodent models using environmental interventions. These interventions …

Effects of chronic stress on the onset and progression of Huntington's disease in transgenic mice

C Mo, T Renoir, AJ Hannan - Neurobiology of disease, 2014 - Elsevier
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by a tandem repeat
mutation encoding an expanded polyglutamine tract. Our previous work showed that …

Animal models of olfactory dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases

RD Prediger, MG Schamne, TB Sampaio… - Handbook of Clinical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Olfactory dysfunction seems to occur earlier than classic motor and cognitive symptoms in
many neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's …

Early deficits in olfaction are associated with structural and molecular alterations in the olfactory system of a Huntington disease mouse model

M Laroche, M Lessard-Beaudoin… - Human Molecular …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Olfactory dysfunction and altered neurogenesis are observed in several neurodegenerative
disorders including Huntington disease (HD). These deficits occur early and correlate with a …

Olfactory bulb atrophy and caspase activation observed in the BACHD rat models of Huntington disease

M Lessard-Beaudoin, L Yu-Taeger, M Laroche… - Neurobiology of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Olfactory dysfunction is observed in several neurological disorders, including Huntington
disease (HD), and correlates with global cognitive performance, depression and …

Ethological endophenotypes are altered by elevated stress hormone levels in both Huntington's disease and wildtype mice

C Mo, T Renoir, AJ Hannan - Behavioural brain research, 2014 - Elsevier
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant, neurodegenerative disorder with
cognitive, psychiatric, motor, neuroendocrine and peripheral dysfunctions. Symptom onset …