... admin-istration of the excitotoxin kainic acid [108,109], orinjection of the neurotoxin colchicine into the dorsal hip-pocampus [109]. Surgical transection of the perforantpathway increased ... Though the acute neuronal damagein these studies differs from the chronic, progressive neu-rodegenerative process that occurs in AD, these resultsdemonstrated that the neuronal response to injuryincludes ... [52], and the increased neuronal loss in the APP/sCrry mouse may bedue to decreased production of C3a as well as the opsonin, C3b. However, whether inhibition of comple-ment activation in the AD...