Genetic vasopressin deficiency facilitates performance of a lateralized reaction-time task: altered attention and motor processes.

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Brattleboro rats are a variety of the outbred Long-Evans strain that possess a single nucleotide deletion in the second exon of the arginine vasopressin gene, resulting in the synthesis of an altered protein that does not enter the normal secretory pathway. Rats heterozygous (di/+) for the deletion have a partial vasopressin deficiency and exhibit a variety of behavioral and neurochemical alterations compared...

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