Animal models of major depression: drawbacks and challenges

B Planchez, A Surget, C Belzung - Journal of Neural Transmission, 2019 - Springer
Major depression is a leading contributor to the global burden of disease. This situation is
mainly related to the chronicity and/or recurrence of the disorder, and to poor response to …

Effects of common environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals on zebrafish behavior

Y Tao, Z Li, Y Yang, Y Jiao, J Qu, Y Wang, Y Zhang - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), a type of exogenous organic
pollutants, are ubiquitous in natural aquatic environments. Therefor, this review focused on …

Identification of a protective microglial state mediated by miR-155 and interferon-γ signaling in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

Z Yin, S Herron, S Silveira, K Kleemann… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Microglia play a critical role in brain homeostasis and disease progression. In
neurodegenerative conditions, microglia acquire the neurodegenerative phenotype (MGnD) …

The Y-maze for assessment of spatial working and reference memory in mice

AK Kraeuter, PC Guest, Z Sarnyai - Pre-clinical models: Techniques and …, 2019 - Springer
The Y-maze can be used to assess short term memory in mice. Spontaneous alternation, a
measure of spatial working memory, can be assessed by allowing mice to explore all three …

A dedicated population for reward coding in the hippocampus

JL Gauthier, DW Tank - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
The hippocampus plays a critical role in goal-directed navigation. Across different
environments, however, hippocampal maps are randomized, making it unclear how goal …

Blood-brain barrier dysfunction in aging induces hyperactivation of TGFβ signaling and chronic yet reversible neural dysfunction

VV Senatorov Jr, AR Friedman, DZ Milikovsky… - Science Translational …, 2019 - science.org
Aging involves a decline in neural function that contributes to cognitive impairment and
disease. However, the mechanisms underlying the transition from a young-and-healthy to …

ALS/FTD-linked mutation in FUS suppresses intra-axonal protein synthesis and drives disease without nuclear loss-of-function of FUS

J López-Erauskin, T Tadokoro, MW Baughn, B Myers… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Through the generation of humanized FUS mice expressing full-length human FUS, we
identify that when expressed at near endogenous murine FUS levels, both wild-type and …

Conditional BDNF delivery from astrocytes rescues memory deficits, spine density, and synaptic properties in the 5xFAD mouse model of Alzheimer disease

B de Pins, C Cifuentes-Díaz, AT Farah… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
It has been well documented that neurotrophins, including brain-derived neurotrophic factor
(BDNF), are severely affected in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but their administration faces a …

Reducing the RNA binding protein TIA1 protects against tau-mediated neurodegeneration in vivo

DJ Apicco, PEA Ash, B Maziuk, C LeBlang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Emerging studies suggest a role for tau in regulating the biology of RNA binding proteins
(RBPs). We now show that reducing the RBP T-cell intracellular antigen 1 (TIA1) in vivo …

A comprehensive behavioral test battery to assess learning and memory in 129S6/Tg2576 mice

A Wolf, B Bauer, EL Abner, T Ashkenazy-Frolinger… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Transgenic Tg2576 mice overexpressing human amyloid precursor protein (hAPP) are a
widely used Alzheimer's disease (AD) mouse model to evaluate treatment effects on amyloid …