| Type | MGI:General | Description | mutants fed a doxycycline diet to suppress transgene expression from E0.5 until P21 and then switched to a regular diet to induce expression exhibit abnormal accumulation of alpha-synuclein in limbic areas including the cingulated cortex, the hippocampus, dentate gyrus, and mammillary body, as well as the olfactory bulb, septum and subthalamic nucleus, by 4 months of age; superior colliculus, ventral tegmental area, brainstem, and spinal cord also shows a limited amount of alpha-synuclein accumulation young mice (4-12 months) fed a doxycycline diet to suppress transgene expression from E0.5 until P21 and then switched to a regular diet to induce expression exhibit early, soluble, neuritic, and synaptic accumulations, which over time progress to become insoluble cytoplasmic inclusions at 20 months mice treated with doxycyline starting at 9 months for 3 months and analyzed at 12 months do not exhibit abnormal alpha-synuclein accumulations in the hippocampus or dentate gyrus; doxycycline however did not clear alpha-synuclein pathology in the mammillary bodies, olfactory bulb or septum, but did arrest further accumulation progression |
