Acute genetic manipulation of phosphoinositide metabolism to rescue lipid and behavioral deficits in AD mouse model

Active Research Project
Investigator(s): 
Laura Beth McIntire, Ph.D.
Last Updated: 
April 14, 2022

Using optogenetics to temporally and spatially regulate phosphoinositide lipid synthesis in the mouse brain, the McIntire lab has shown amelioration of phosphoinositide dysregulation and behavioral benefit in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 

Weill Cornell Medicine
Department of Radiology
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