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The "Down syndrome critical region" is sufficient in the mouse model to confer behavioral, neurophysiological, and synaptic phenotypes characteristic of Down syndrome.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 6 May 2009
Belichenko Nadia P, Belichenko Pavel V, Kleschevnikov Alexander M, Salehi Ahmad, Reeves Roger H, Mobley William C
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Down syndrome (DS) can be modeled in mice segmentally trisomic for mouse chromosome 16. Ts65Dn and Ts1Cje mouse models have been used to study DS neurobiological phenotypes including changes in cognitive ability, induction of long-term potentiation (LTP) in the fascia dentata (FD), the density an...
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