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Using mice as a model for Alzheimer's disease

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Uploaded by on Jan 31, 2011

Mice can be used to mimic Alzheimer's disease in humans. Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia. Currently there are no effective treatments so mice models offer one approach to both understanding and developing treatments for Alzheimer's. Here we see mice digging and burrowing.
Find more information about Alzheimer's disease here: http://alzheimers.org.uk/

More science here: Deacon, R.M.J. Digging and marble burying in mice: simple methods for in vivo identification of biological impacts. Nat. Protocols 1, 122 - 124 (2006).

http://www.nature.com/nprot/journal/v1/n1/full/nprot.2006.20.html

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  • @skittlebiscuts

    fuck u and your grandmother too.

  • @stillrage

    The rats/mice are the ones who carry disease to people dumbass. If they did not do testing your grandmother wouldn't be alive today besides your ass as well in the future.

  • could you suggest free articles on this topic please?

    thanks for the upload by the way!

  • could you suggest free articles on this topic please?

  • fuck u, no compassion for humans who kill animals for their desease.

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