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Development of transgenic rats producing human β-amyloid precursor protein as a model for Alzheimer's disease: Transgene and endogenous APP genes are regulated tissue-specifically

Cansu Agca1 email, Jason J Fritz2 email, Lary C Walker2,3 email, Allan I Levey2 email, Anthony WS Chan3 email, James J Lah2 email and Yuksel Agca1 email

1University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology Columbia, MO 65211, USA

2Department of Neurology and Center for Neurodegenerative Disease, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA

3Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA

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BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9:28doi:10.1186/1471-2202-9-28

Published: 26 February 2008

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Control immunohistochemistry without primary antibody for 6E10 staining. Low power (2×) micrograph demonstrates the lack of non-specific staining in neocortex and hippocampus with biotynalated goat anti-mouse secondary antibody (Vector Laboratories: Burlingame, CA) following no primary negative control for immunohistochemistry with human-specific APP mouse monoclonal antibody 6E10 (Signet; Dedham, MA).

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