Central Nervous System Animal Models Products & Reviews

The PhysioTel F20-EET and F40-EET transmitters are designed primarily for sleep research applications in rodents. These transmitters will allow simultaneous monitoring of two biopotential channels, such as EEG and EMG, temperature, and locomotor activity. The biopotential electrode has an outer diameter of .3mm making the lead an ideal size for use in EEG applications in small animals. 

In vivo model for cardiovascular, alzheimer’s and other neurodegeneration studies. Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) is a critical apoprotein of the chylomicron which binds to a specific receptor on liver cells and peripheral cells. Defects in ApoE result in disrupted transportation of lipoproteins, fat-soluble vitamins and cholesterol into the lymph systems, and then into blood.ApoE Knockout Rat Characteristics: 16 bp deletion wit…

Take advantage of our large inventories of common inbred strains and the convenience of having your breeding and drug efficacy needs met by the leading experts in mouse modeling.

The M-Series™ systems are cryogen/cooling-free, self-shielded, high-performance MRI systems based on permanent magnet technology. The M-Series systems allow preclinical researchers, with or without in-depth knowledge of MR physics, to utilize the gold standard method in soft tissue imaging without the cost, complexity, and technical burden of superconducting MRI systems. 

The TriTom imaging platform utilizes photoacoustic and fluorescence tomographies (PAFT) for high-resolution, non-invasive whole-body imaging in small animal models, achieving up to 160 µm resolution. This multi-modality system enables simultaneous acquisition of photoacoustic and fluorescence data in large volumes (> 25 cm3), allowing for spectroscopic molecular analysis. 

The CD34 humanized NSG-FLT3-IL15 (F15) mouse is the most comprehensive immune cell mouse model from the Jackson Laboratory to date.

The 11BHSD2 mouse was produced by injection of a construct, containing 11β-HSD2 cDNA isolated from mouse kidney and cloned into plasmid Clone 26 to recruit the 5.4 kb mouse α–myosin heavy chain (α-MHC) promoter, into pronuclei of C57BL/6 embryos. Transgenic mice were maintained by sibling mating and used as hemizygotes. Model Properties: Coat Color: Black Ideal For: Cardiac hypertrophy, heart failure Strain Code: 510 HE,…

NSE-p25 mice were created by pronuclear injection of an NSE-p25 transgene, produced internally at Pfizer, with transplantation of embryos to pseudopregnant CD-1 females. At weaning genomic DNA was isolated from tail tissue and founder transgenics were identified by PCR that specifically amplified DNA sequences from the human p25 cDNA. Founder mice were bred to FVB/N mates and transgenic offspring were used to maintain the tra…

Rabbits are a preferred model in hypertension and atherosclerosis studies due to their convenience of various physiological and surgical manipulations. ApoE Knockout rabbits have drastically elevated cholesterol and triglycerides, making it an excellent model of human heart disease. ApoE Knockout Rabbit Characteristics: 8 bp deletion within Exon 3 Homozygous knockouts exhibit complete loss of ApoE protein via Western bl…

Developed in collaboration with The Michael J. Fox Foundation, this model contains a deletion of the Pink1 (PTEN-induced putative kinase 1) gene, encoding for a serine/threonine protein kinase. Mutations in Pink1 are implicated in early-onset Parkinson’s disease. Pink1 knockout rats show both motor impairments and dopaminergic cell loss, making this a useful model of Parkinson’s disease.Pink1 (Park6) Knockout Rat Characterist…