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Marcus Westerman Ph.D. 2001 Thesis Title: Characterization and treatment of age-dependent cognitive decline in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease Advisors: Karen Hsiao Ashe and Walter Low

Thesis Publications:

Westerman MA, Cooper-Blacketer D, Mariash A, Kotilinek L, Kawarabayashi T, Younkin LH, Carlson GA, Younkin SG, Ashe KH. (2002) The relationship between Abeta and memory in the Tg2576 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. J Neurosci. 22:1858-1867.

Duan WM, Westerman M, Flores T, Low WC. (2001) Survival of intrastriatal xenografts of ventral mesencephalic dopamine neurons from MHC-deficient mice to adult rats. Exp Neurol. 167:108-117.

Duan WM, Zhao LR, Westerman M, Lovick D, Furcht LT, McCarthy JB, Low WC. (2000) Enhancement of nigral graft survival in rat brain with the systemic administration of synthetic fibronectin peptide. V. Neuroscience 100: 521-530.

Other Publications:

Linda A. Kotilinek, Brian Bacskai, Marcus Westerman, Takeshi Kawarabayashi, Linda Younkin, Bradley T. Hyman, Steven Younkin, and Karen H. Ashe Reversible Memory Loss in a Mouse Transgenic Model of Alzheimer's Disease J. Neurosci. 2002 22: 6331-6335

Duan WM, Westerman MA , Wong G, Low WC. Rat nigral xenografts survive in the brain of MHC class II-, but not class I-deficient mice. Neuroscience. 2002;115(2):495-504.