Subject collection: Rat as a Disease Model
- Adenoviral TMBIM6 vector attenuates ER-stress-induced apoptosis in a neonatal hypoxic-ischemic rat model
Summary: Elucidating the role of Bax inhibitor 1 (BI-1) and its mechanisms in the pathophysiology of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy may help provide a basis for BI-1 as a potential therapeutic target in clinics.
- Impaired neural differentiation and glymphatic CSF flow in the Ccdc39 rat model of neonatal hydrocephalus: genetic interaction with L1cam
Summary: Glymphatic CSF circulation and development of the cerebral cortex are impaired in our new genetic rat model of neonatal hydrocephalus with the onset of parenchymal inflammation and hemorrhage.
- Pramipexole prevents ischemic cell death via mitochondrial pathways in ischemic stroke
Summary: Pramipexole produced neurological recovery through mitochondrial-mediated survival pathways in ischemic stroke.
- Conserved properties of genetic architecture of renal and fat transcriptomes in rat models of insulin resistance
Summary: Kidney and fat expression QTL mapping in rat models of spontaneously occurring insulin resistance associated with either diabetes or hypertension reveals conserved gene expression regulation, suggesting shared aetiology of disease phenotypes.
- Increased levels of synaptic proteins involved in synaptic plasticity after chronic intraocular pressure elevation and modulation by brain-derived neurotrophic factor in a glaucoma animal model
Summary: Application of BDNF increased the expression of synaptic vesicle proteins in the inner retina via the p-Akt, CaMKII and CREB pathways, increasing F-actin in RGC dendrites.
- Effects of subthalamic deep brain stimulation on striatal metabolic connectivity in a rat hemiparkinsonian model
Summary: Deep brain stimulation in the subthalamic nucleus in rats with a unilateral dopaminergic lesion established a new functional interhemispheric striatal network.
- Beneficial effects of exercise on gut microbiota functionality and barrier integrity, and gut-liver crosstalk in an in vivo model of early obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Summary: The beneficial effects of exercise against diet-induced early obesity and NAFLD are mediated by its capacity to modulate intestinal microbiota composition and functionality, restore lipid metabolism and prevent disruption of the gut-liver axis.
- Role of ectodysplasin signalling in middle ear and nasal pathology in rat and mouse models of hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia
Summary: The Edaraddswh/swh rat has comparable ear, nose and throat (ENT) pathology to humans with hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, and prenatal correction of EDAR signalling in EdaTa mice prevents ENT disease.
- Semiology, clustering, periodicity and natural history of seizures in an experimental occipital cortical epilepsy model
Summary: Tetanus-toxin-induced occipital cortical epilepsy is a rodent model of acquired focal neocortical epilepsy well-suited for preclinical evaluation of novel anti-epileptic strategies.
- A novel mutation in the NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone) 1 alpha subcomplex 4 (Ndufa4) gene links mitochondrial dysfunction to the development of diabetes in a rodent model
Summary: Here, we report, for the first time, a major inherited mutation in a diabetes-prone animal model that adversely affects mitochondrial function and leads, through oxidative stress, to the development of diet-induced diabetes.