Retinal and behavioral characterization of a streptozotocin-induced diabetes type 2 model in the search of early symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease
Georg Ladurner, Daurer Magdalena, Roland Rabl, Stefanie Flunkert, Livia Breznik, Bernhard Baumann, Manuela Prokesch · FENS Forum 2024
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, characterized by the appearance of amyloid-beta plaques and neurofibrillary tangles leading to the loss of neurons, cognitive impairments, and death. With 55 million affected people worldwide as of 2019 and an increasing prevalence in an aging society, AD poses a serious challenge for health care systems. Lacking reliable and non-invasive methods of early diagnosis, analyzing the early disease development is of utmost importance for the development of presymptomatic diagnostic tools and treatment options. Diabetes is one of the stro
ePoster · Neuroscience