Article
Sex-specific hippocampus-dependent cognitive deficits and increased neuronal autophagy in DEspR haploinsufficiency in mice.
Physiological genomics - 12 Nov 2008
Herrera Victoria L M, Decano Julius L, Bagamasbad Pia, Kufahl Timothy, Steffen Martin, Ruiz-Opazo Nelson
Abstract excerpt
Aside from abnormal angiogenesis, dual endothelin-1/VEGF signal peptide-activated receptor deficiency (DEspR(-/-)) results in aberrant neuroepithelium and neural tube differentiation, thus elucidating DEspR's role in neurogenesis. With the emerging importance of neurogenesis in adulthood, we tested the hypothesis that nonembryonic-lethal DEspR haploinsufficiency (DEspR(+/-)) perturbs neuronal homeostasis, thereby...
Topics
- Animals
- Autophagy
- Behavior, Animal
- Cognition Disorders
- Female
- Hippocampus
- Male
- Maze Learning
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
