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Heterotopia Formation in Rat but Not Mouse Neocortex after RNA Interference Knockdown of DCX
16 Nov 2005
Abstract excerpt
Subcortical band heterotopia (SBH) or double cortex is associated with significant impairments in neocortical function including mental retardation and epilepsy. Mutant alleles of DCX in humans typically cause SBH in females and lissencephaly in males, whereas Dcx null mutations in mice neither disrupt neocortical neuronal migration nor cause SBH formation. In utero RNA interference (RNAi) of Dcx in rats, in...
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