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In a 2026 study of BTBR mice, a lab strain used to model autism, males and females showed different autism-like changes. Female BTBR mice formed fewer habits and engaged less with other mice…
Read articleA 2026 Parkinson’s disease mouse study reported that benzhexol hydrochloride induced a measurable hallucination-like behavior state in 6-OHDA parkinsonian mice, and an integrated behavior cl…
Read articleA 2026 mouse study found that long-term CoQ10 exposure reduced working-memory errors in Purkinje-cell-specific Drp1-deficient mice, tying the behavioral rescue to Coa6 binding and support fo…
Read articleA 2026 mouse study found that complete IL-6 deficiency worsened motor dysfunction and dopaminergic injury in MPTP and alpha-synuclein A53T Parkinson’s disease models, with earlier and broade…
Read articleA 2026 NF1 mouse-model study found a gut-brain signal that was strongest in males: Nf1 +/- mice had altered gut microbiome composition, higher relative brain mass in 2 cohorts, reduced socia…
Read articleA 2025 Nature Aging study found that hippocampal ferritin light chain 1 (FTL1) rose with age in mouse neurons, tracked poorer cognition, and became experimentally reversible in old mice. Thi…
Read articleA 2026 mouse study found that Theiler’s murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) injected into the substantia nigra produced persistent Parkinson’s-like motor signals through 20 weeks, includin…
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