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Cerebellum-related characteristics of Scn8a-mutant mice.
Cerebellum (London, England) - 1 Sept 2009
Chen Kejian, Godfrey Donald A, Ilyas Omer, Xu Jiansong, Preston Todd W
Abstract excerpt
Among ten sodium channel alpha-subunit genes mapped in human and mouse genomes, the SCN8A gene is primarily expressed in neurons and glia. Mice with two types of Scn8a null mutations--Scn8a ( med ) and Scn8a ( medTg )--live for only 21-24 days, but those with incomplete mutations-Scn8a ( medJ ) and Scn8a ( medJo )--and those with knockout of Scn8a only in cerebellar Purkinje cells live to adult age. We review...
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