B6-hSNCA Mouse

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a degenerative disease of the nervous system that occurs mostly in middle-aged and elderly people and is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease (AD). Clinical symptoms of PD are characterized by resting tremors, limb stiffness, bradykinesia, and lack of voluntary movement. The typical pathology of PD is characterized by the formation of Lewy bodies (LB) in the central nervous system (CNS). This process leads to the progressive death and loss of dopaminergic neurons, ultimately resulting in the development of Parkinson's disease. Lewy bodies are mainly composed of insoluble aggregates of abnormal α-synuclein (α-syn).

The SNCA gene, one of the key pathogenic genes in Parkinson's disease, encodes α-syn. Mutations in SNCA can cause overexpression of α-syn, which leads to the formation of Lewy bodies and ultimately PD. Therefore, the SNCA gene is considered an effective drug target for the treatment of PD ^[1].

Gene therapy is one of the ways to treat PD, among which the development prospects of SNCA-targeted drugs are particularly prominent. The drug pipelines targeting SNCA are widely laid out, and ASO, siRNA, and CRISPR therapies have emerged ^[2].

This strain is a mouse Snca gene humanized model and can be used for research on PD. The homozygous B6-hSNCA mice are viable and fertile. Leveraging its proprietary TurboKnockout fusion BAC recombination technology, Cyagen can also generate hot mutation models based on this strain and provide customized services for specific mutations to meet the experimental needs in pharmacology and other fields related to PD.