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ArticleJournal of molecular neuroscience : MN2019

Animal Weight Is an Important Variable for Reliable Cuprizone-Induced Demyelination.

Patrizia Leopold, Christoph Schmitz, Markus Kipp

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Article in Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Patrizia LeopoldInstitute of Anatomy, Rostock University Medical Center, 18057, Rostock, Germany.
Christoph SchmitzDepartment of Anatomy II, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, 80336, Munich, Germany.
Markus KippInstitute of Anatomy, Rostock University Medical Center, 18057, Rostock, Germany. Markus.kipp@med.uni-rostock.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5043-9052
University of Rostock · DELudwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DE

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DE) KI 1469/8-1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An elegant model to study mechanisms operant during oligodendrocyte degeneration and subsequent demyelination is the cuprizone model. In that model, mice are intoxicated with the copper chelation agent cuprizone which results in early oligodendrocyte stress, oligodendrocyte apoptosis, and, finally, demyelination. Here, we systematically investigated to what extent the animals' weight at the beginning of the cuprizone intoxication period is critical for the reproducibility of the cuprizone-induced pathology. We can demonstrate that a negative correlation exists between the two variables "extent of cuprizone-induced demyelination" and "starting weight." Demyelination and microglia activation were more severe in low weight compared to heavy weight mice. These findings are highly relevant for the experimental design using the cuprizone model.

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Body WeightDisease Models, AnimalAnimalsCuprizoneDemyelinating DiseasesFemaleMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLReproducibility of ResultsCuprizoneCorrelationCuprizoneOligodendrocyte degenerationWeight

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