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Behavioral analyses of transgenic mice harboring bipolar disorder candidate genes, IMPA1 and IMPA2.
Neuroscience research - 1 May 2010
Ohnishi Tetsuo, Watanabe Akiko, Ohba Hisako, Iwayama Yoshimi, Maekawa Motoko, Yoshikawa Takeo
Abstract excerpt
The inositol depletion hypothesis proposes the inhibition of IMPase (myo-inositol monophosphatase) by lithium, a mood stabilizer, as a mechanism of lithium's efficacy. This hypothesis predicts that the upregulation of this biochemical pathway may underlie the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder. In favor of this idea, IMPA2 encoding IMPase is a candidate susceptibility gene for bipolar disorder and that the...
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