Rat or mouse exhibiting behaviors associated with human schizoph

Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – In vivo diagnosis or in vivo testing – Testing efficacy or toxicity of a compound or composition

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424 91, 800 2, 935111, A61K 4900, C12N 1500, G01N 3700

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ABSTRACT:
This invention provides a unique and surprisingly accurate animal model for human schizophrenia. The animals are brain damaged while prepubescent. The brain damage consists of a ventral hippocampus lesion induced by exposure of the hippocampus region to a neurotoxin. When the animal reaches puberty, abnormal behavior and a number of biological phenomena associated with schizophrenic symptoms emerge. These animals are useful for assaying pharmaceutical compounds for anti-schizophrenic activity.

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Beauregard, M., et al., "Schizophrenia a Result of Early Damage to the Hippocampal Formation? A Behavioral Study in Primates," Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, vol. 18(2), p. 872 (1992).
Lipska, B. K., et al., "Postbubertal Emergence of Mesolimbic Dopaminergic Supersensitivity after Excitotoxic Lesions of Ventral Hippocampus in the Rat," Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, vol. 18(2), No. 472.1 (1992).

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