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QPS Austria now offers the Tau transgenic PS19 mouse for your research!

QPS Neuropharmacology

QPS Austria now licensed the PS19 transgenic mouse from the University of Pennsylvania, USA (JAX 008169; Yoshiyama et al., 2007). The mouse expresses the T34 isoform and 4 microtubule binding repeats (1N4R) of the tau protein with P301S mutation under the regulatory control of the murine prion promoter (Prnp). PS19 mice are a popular model to study tau aggregation, tauopathy and other symptoms of Alzheimer`s disease.

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Animals present the following phenotype:

  • Neuronal accumulation of phosphorylated tau and paired helical filaments (PHF) in different brain regions at 6 months (Yoshiyama et al., 2007)
  • Cerebral atrophy and neuron loss at 12 months (Yoshiyama et al., 2007)
  • Neuroinflammation observed as activated microglia and astrocytosis at 6 months and older (Yoshiyama et al., 2007; Lopez-Gonzalez et al., 2015)
  • Muscle weakness and neurogenic muscular atrophy at 3 months (Yoshiyama et al., 2007)
  • Reduced anxiety at 9 months (Briggs et al., 2017)
  • Learning and memory deficits at 9 months (Briggs et al., 2017)
  • Reduced survival (Yoshiyama et al., 2007)

Results from published efficacy studies show that many of these symptoms are partly reversible by different compounds:

  • Survival, nueroinflammation, tau phosphorylation (Yoshiyama et al., 2007)
  • Axonal dystrophy, learning and memory (Brunden et al., 2010)
  • Brain atrophy, survival, nest building (DeVos et al., 2017)

The phenotype described above, relevant for AD and other neurodegenerative disorders, makes the PS19 mouse a perfect model for your drug testing.

Just released: QPS Austria`s latest scientific publication about the Niemann-Pick type 1 mouse model NPC1-/-

Hepatic and neuronal phenotype of NPC1−/− mice


March 26-31 2019

Meet us at the 14th International Conference on Alzheimer´s & Parkinson´s Diseases in Lisbon, Portugal

The clinical and neuropharmacology teams of QPS will attend the AD/PD 2019 and are pleased to meet you at our booth # 28.

Additionally, our scientists are presenting our newest research results in oral and poster presentations:

Oral Presentation:

Wednesday, March 27th, 12:30H:

CHARACTERIZATION OF 4L/PS-NA MICE FOR ENZYME ACTIVITY, SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATIONS AS WELL AS INFLAMMATION TO MODEL GAUCHER DISEASE

Irene Schilcher, Ewald Auer, Victoria Schiffer, Tina Loeffler, Joerg Neddens, Staffan Schmidt, Jan Kehr, Birgit Hutter-Paier

Poster plus 5 minute talks:

Saturday, March 30th:

09:20H: # 395: TAU PHOSPHORYLATION PROFILE OF HTAU TRANSGENIC MICE

Joerg Neddens, Tina Loeffler, Magdalena Temmel, Irene Schilcher, David Amschl, Birgit Hutter-Paier

10:00H: # 399: UNTANGLING ALZHEIMER´S DISEASE HALLMARKS IN SENSORY SYSTEMS OF RODENT MODELS

Magdalena Temmel, Meritxell Aguilo Garcia, Tina Loeffler, Joerg Neddens, Irati Aiestaran Zelaia, Vera Niederkofler, Stefanie Flunkert and Birgit Hutter-Paier

Poster:

# 348: INVESTIGATION OF SKIN SAMPLES OF ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN TRANSGENIC MICE LINE 61, D-LINE AND A53T

Joerg Neddens, Estibaliz Etxebarria, Victoria Krivitsch, Birgit Hutter-Paier

# 398: PROGRESSIVE INCREASE OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE PATHOLOGY IN 5XFAD TRANSGENIC MICE

Magdalena Temmel, Tina Loeffler, Joerg Neddens, Irene Schilcher, Birgit Hutter-Paier

# 390: CONSTRUCTION OF A TAU-SEED INJECTION MODEL USING HTAU MICE

Shigeru Akasofu, Jane Gartlon, Malcolm Roberts, Ezat Sajedi, Rohan de Silva, Tina Loeffler, Birgit Hutter-Paier

# 707: BEHAVIORAL CHARACTERIZATION OF HOMOZYGOUS BACHD RATS

Tina Loeffler, Stephan Kurat, Adam Horvath, Stefanie Flunkert, Hoa Huu Phuc Nguyen, Robert Wronski, Birgit Hutter-Paier

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