Parkinson's Disease Research Web

Animal Models

• NINDS Animal Model Resources
  The goal of the NINDS Animal Model Resources web page is to provide the community with timely and up to date information regarding the various animal models available for Parkinson's research. These web pages are a work in progress and we encourage users to provide us with feedback on missing information or notify us regarding existing models you do not find on these web pages.
  
  
• NINDS/UCLA Repository for Parkinson’s Disease Mouse Models
  One of the most immediate and important benefits of discoveries regarding the genetic or environmental causes of Parkinson's disease (PD) is the subsequent development of animal models wherein therapeutic and/or preventative interventions may be studied. As part of the effort to accelerate PD research, NINDS and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) created a resource that will distribute transgenic mouse models of human PD that are not yet available through national commercial resources
  
  
• NCRR Comparative Medicine Research Resources Directory
  The Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM) of the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) supports research resources that create, develop, and supply a variety of high-quality animal models, biological materials, and similar resources. The purpose of this Comparative Medicine Resources directory is to guide investigators, who have projects supported by the National Institutes of Health and other peer-reviewed funding sources, to these critical comparative medicine resources.
  
  
• The Alzhiemer Research Forum's Alpha-Synuclein Research Models
  
  
• Rat Genome Database
  The Rat Genome Database is a collaborative effort between leading research institutions involved in rat genetic and genomic research. Its goal, is the establishment of a Rat Genome Database, to collect, consolidate, and integrate data generated from ongoing rat genetic and genomic research efforts and make these data widely available to the scientific community. A secondary, but critical goal is to provide curation of mapped positions for quantitative trait loci, known mutations and other phenotypic data.
  
  
• WormBase.Org
  WormBase is a model organism database containing information on core genomics, genetic, anatomical and functional information about Caenorhabditis elegans.
  
  

• My Mouse.Org
  The goal of mymouse.org is to accelerate discovery of gene function and the development of novel mutant mouse models of disease by linking you to laboratories actively screening for specific phenotypes, and to researchers with genetically defined mouse mutants available for study.

• ZFIN.Org

  ZFIN serves as the zebrafish model organism database. The long term goals for ZFIN are a) to be the community database resource for the laboratory use of zebrafish, b) to develop and support integrated zebrafish genetic, genomic and developmental information, c) to maintain the definitive reference data sets of zebrafish research information, d) to link this information extensively to corresponding data in other model organism and human databases, e) to facilitate the use of zebrafish as a model for human biology and f) to serve the needs of the research community.

• Jackson Laboratory
  Jackson laboratory serves the global scientific community in providing critical genetic resources on mouse models.
  
  
• Comparative Medicine Resources Directory
  The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) provides critical research technologies and shared resources.