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ReviewJournal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996)2013

What have we learned from the streptozotocin-induced animal model of sporadic Alzheimer's disease, about the therapeutic strategies in Alzheimer's research.

Melita Salkovic-Petrisic, Ana Knezovic, Siegfried Hoyer, Peter Riederer

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Review in Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 134 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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134 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 authors.

Melita Salkovic-PetrisicDepartment of Pharmacology and Croatian Institute for Brain Research, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Salata 11, HR 10000, Zagreb, Croatia. melitas@mef.hr
Ana Knezovic
Siegfried Hoyer
Peter Riederer

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Experimental models that faithfully mimic the developmental pathology of sporadic Alzheimer's disease (sAD) in humans are important for testing the novel therapeutic approaches in sAD treatment. Widely used transgenic mice AD models have provided valuable insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying the memory decline but, due to the particular β-amyloid-related gene manipulation, they resemble the familial but not the sporadic AD form, and are, therefore, inappropriate for this purpose. In line with the recent findings of sAD being recognised as an insulin resistant brains state (IRBS), a new, non-transgenic, animal model has been proposed as a representative model of sAD, developed by intracerebroventricular application of the betacytotoxic drug streptozotocin (STZ-icv). The STZ-icv-treated animals (mostly rats and mice) develop IRBS associated with memory impairment and progressive cholinergic deficits, glucose hypometabolism, oxidative stress and neurodegeneration that share many features in common with sAD in humans. The therapeutic strategies (acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, antioxidants and many other drugs) that have been tested until now on the STZ-icv animal model have been reviewed and the comparability of the drugs' efficacy in this non-transgenic sAD model and the results from clinical trials on sAD patients, evaluated.

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Disease Models, AnimalAlzheimer DiseaseAnimalsAntibiotics, AntineoplasticAntihypertensive AgentsAntipsychotic AgentsCholinesterase InhibitorsEnzyme InhibitorsEstrogensExcitatory Amino Acid AntagonistsHumansHypoglycemic AgentsMiceRatsStreptozocinAntibiotics, AntineoplasticAntihypertensive AgentsAntipsychotic AgentsCholinesterase InhibitorsEnzyme InhibitorsEstrogensExcitatory Amino Acid AntagonistsHypoglycemic AgentsStreptozocin

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