Transgenic Rat Models of Huntington's Disease
João Casaca Carreira1, Ali Jahanshahi, Dagmar Zeef
1Departments of Neuroscience and Neurosurgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
|September 10, 2013
Abstract:
Several animal models for Huntington's disease (HD) have been created in order to investigate mechanisms of disease, and to evaluate the potency of novel therapies. Here, we describe the characteristics of the two transgenic rat models: transgenic rat model of HD (fragment model) and the Bacterial Artificial Chromosome HD model (full-length model). We discuss their genetic, behavioural, neuropathological and neurophysiological features.


