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Postnatal NMDA receptor ablation in corticolimbic interneurons confers schizophrenia-like phenotypes.
Nature neuroscience - 1 Jan 2010
Belforte Juan E, Zsiros Veronika, Sklar Elyse R, Jiang Zhihong, Yu Gu, Li Yuqing, Quinlan Elizabeth M, Nakazawa Kazu
Abstract excerpt
Cortical GABAergic dysfunction may underlie the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia. Here, we characterized a mouse strain in which the essential NR1 subunit of the NMDA receptor (NMDAR) was selectively eliminated in 40-50% of cortical and hippocampal interneurons in...
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