NON-HUMAN MAMMAL MODEL OF EPILEPSY

摘要

Provided is a genuine model animal of epilepsy, since most of the existing model animals are so-called seizure model animals showing forcibly-induced seizure. Also provided is a method whereby a recombinant can be easily distinguished. A non-human mammal model of epilepsy which is an epilepsy model of a non-human animal such as rat having the same genetic defect as human genetic defect causing epilepsy, which carries a genetic mutation that is the genetic defect having been transferred into the non-human mammal DNA of neuron nicotinic acetylcholine receptor a4 subunit (CHRNA4) gene or ß2 subunit (CHRNB2) gene relating to human autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy and which also carries a mutated gene obtained by transferring a specific probe thereinto. A recombinant of this non-human mammal model of epilepsy can be easily distinguished.