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Selective breeding for deficient sensorimotor gating is accompanied by increased perseveration in rats.
Neuroscience - 7 Sept 2007
Freudenberg F, Dieckmann M, Winter S, Koch M, Schwabe K
Abstract excerpt
Prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the acoustic startle response is a measure of sensorimotor gating that is deficient in some neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia and Tourette's syndrome. Experimentally induced PPI deficits in rats are regarded as endophenotype to study the biological mechanisms and therapeutic strategies of these disorders. We have recently shown that selectively breeding rats for high...
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