Octodon Degus: A Strong Attractor for Alzheimer Research

The most popular animal models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are transgenic mice expressing human genes with known mutations which do not represent the most abundant sporadic form of the disease. An increasing number of genetic, vascular and psychosocial data strongly support that the Octodon degus, a...

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Main Authors: Rafael Castro-Fuentes, Rosario Socas-Pérez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Iran University of Medical Sciences 2013-02-01
Series:Basic and Clinical Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://bcn.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-142&slc_lang=en&sid=1