Method for examining central nervous system diseases and method for screening remedies

摘要

The present invention relates to a method for screening and identifying therapeutic agents or preventive agents for central nervous system diseases which comprises assaying a suppressing effect of a test substance on an expression of a splicing variant transcribed from presenilin-2 gene and to a method for examining central nervous system diseases which comprises detecting an expression of a splicing variant transcribed from presenilin-2 gene in a test sample originated from an animal individual.