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Animal Models of Alzheimer’s Disease

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Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias are placing increasing pressures on the health care systems of Western societies as the proportion of elderly in the general population continues to rise with improvements in the standards of general health care (Isaacs, 1983). As a consequence, the last decade has seen an increasing investment in basic as well as applied research into the cause and course of these diseases, and new approaches to their prophylaxis and treatment. A substantial section of this research has of necessity involved development of animal models in the attempt to identify and reproduce components of the cellular, neurochemical and genetic neuropathology that will lead to cognitive and behavioural changes in the animals similar to the psychopathology observed in human dementia.

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