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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1998
Wei Zhang, Stanford, CA (US);
Jonathan G. Seidman, Milton, MA (US);
Usamah S. Kagyali, Somerville, MA (US);
Huntington Potter, Boston, MA (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of identifying drugs or agents which have immuno-suppressive effects through or as a result of their effect on calcineurin, including drugs which affect the calcineurin A&agr; (CNA&agr;) subunit or the calcineurin A&bgr; (CNA&bgr;) subunit. In addition, the present invention relates to a method of identifying drugs which reduce (partially or totally) phosphorylation of the microtubule-associated protein tau, in the nervous system of a mammal; a method of identifying drugs which reduce (partially or totally) paired helical filament formation in the nervous system of a mammal; and a method of identifying drugs which reduce (partially or totally) formation of paired helical filaments, amyloid deposits or both. The present invention also relates to transgenic non-human mammals, such as rodents and particularly mice, which lack a functional calcineurin gene and, thus, have disyrupted calcineurin expression.