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Postnatal lesion evidence against a primary role for the corpus callosum in mouse sociability.
The European journal of neuroscience - 1 Apr 2009
Yang Mu, Clarke Andrew M, Crawley Jacqueline N
Abstract excerpt
The BTBR T+tf/J (BTBR) strain is an inbred strain of mice that displays prominent social deficits and repetitive behaviors analogous to the defining symptoms of autism, along with complete congenital agenesis of the corpus callosum (CC). The BTBR strain is genetically distant from the widely used C57BL/6J (B6) strain, which exhibits high levels of sociability, a low level of repetitive behaviors, and an intact...
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