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Mouse neurexin-1alpha deletion causes correlated electrophysiological and behavioral changes consistent with cognitive impairments.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 20 Oct 2009
Etherton Mark R, Blaiss Cory A, Powell Craig M, Südhof Thomas C
Abstract excerpt
Deletions in the neurexin-1alpha gene were identified in large-scale unbiased screens for copy-number variations in patients with autism or schizophrenia. To explore the underlying biology, we studied the electrophysiological and behavioral phenotype of mice lacking neurexin-1alpha. Hippocampal slice physiology uncovered a defect in excitatory synaptic strength in neurexin-1alpha deficient mice, as revealed by a...
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