“…As such, a toxin that removed these cells from the rat basal forebrain provided an excellent model for some of the facets of AD. It is a validated model for the disease [ 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ]. The use of an antibody to a cell-surface brain marker for lesioning was firmly established in a series of papers [ 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 ].…”