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Table 2 Motor impairment of heterozygous mice transgenic for human mutant A53T α-synuclein following intracerebral injection of brain extracts from Parkinson’s disease (PD)

From: Silver staining (Campbell-Switzer) of neuronal α-synuclein assemblies induced by multiple system atrophy and Parkinson’s disease brain extracts in transgenic mice

Human brain extract

Age at death

Mice injected

Mice with motor impairment

Survival (days)

SD

Survivors to 18 Mo

Survivors with assembled α-synclein

(1) PD

76

3

0

3

2

(2) PD

83

4

4

288

79

(3) PD

92

3

1

265

2

1

(4) PD

68

3

1

335

2

1

(5) PD

74

4

1

3

1