A Decade of Innovation in Non-Invasive Ultrasound

For over 10 years, the team at the Queensland Brain Institute has been at the forefront of non-invasive ultrasound technology, pioneering breakthrough solutions for neurological disease. 

PUBLICATIONS

Safety and Efficacy of Scanning Ultrasound Treatment of Aged APP23 Mice

Source: Frontiers in Neuroscience
Authors: Gerhard Leinenga and Jürgen Götz

Deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide leads to amyloid plaques that together with tau deposits characterize the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). In modeling this pathology, transgenic animals such as the APP23 strain, that expresses a mutant form of...

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Combined effects of scanning ultrasound and a tau-specific single chain antibody in a tau transgenic mouse model

Source: Brain
Authors: Rebecca M. Nisbet, Ann Van der Jeugd, Gerhard Leinenga, Harrison T. Evans, Phillip W. Janowicz and Jürgen Götz

Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by the deposition of amyloid-β as extracellular plaques and hyperphosphorylated tau as intracellular neurofibrillary tangles. Tau pathology characterizes not only Alzheimer’s disease, but also many other tauopathies, presenting tau...

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Scanning Ultrasound (SUS) Causes No Changes to Neuronal Excitability and Prevents Age-Related Reductions in Hippocampal CA1 Dendritic Structure in Wild-Type Mice

Source: PLoS One
Authors: Robert John Hatch, Gerhard Leinenga and Jürgen Götz

Scanning ultrasound (SUS) is a noninvasive approach that has recently been shown to ameliorate histopathological changes and restore memory functions in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model. Although no overt neuronal damage was reported, the short- and long-term...

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Scanning ultrasound removes amyloid-β and restores memory in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model

Source: Science Translational Medicine
Authors: Gerhard Leinenga and Jürgen Götz

Amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We present a nonpharmacological approach for removing Aβ and restoring memory function in a mouse model of AD in which Aβ is deposited in the brain. We used repeated scanning...

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