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Chorein deficiency leads to upregulation of gephyrin and GABA(A) receptor.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 15 Dec 2006
Kurano Yutaka, Nakamura Masayuki, Ichiba Mio, Matsuda Mieko, Mizuno Emiko, Kato Maiko, Izumo Shuji, Sano Akira
Abstract excerpt
Chorea-acanthocytosis (ChAc) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder caused by loss of function mutations in the VPS13A gene encoding chorein. Recently, using a gene-targeting technique to delete exons 60-61, we produced a ChAc-model mouse that corresponds to a human disease mutation. In this study, a comparative microarray analysis of gene expression in the striatum revealed an increased level of gephyrin...
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