For example, in transgenic mice engineered to express nerve growth factor antibodies only in lymphocytes, the blood brain barrier is soon disrupted, with cerebral antibody entry provoking extensive cortical degeneration, cholinergic neuronal loss, tau hyperphosphorylation, and beta-amyloid deposition (i.e., the cardinal pathology of Alzheimer's disease) [202]. The gene discussed is NGF; the disease is early-onset autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease.