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Disruption of Eaat2b, a glutamate transporter, results in abnormal motor behaviors in developing zebrafish.
Developmental biology - 15 Feb 2012
McKeown Kelly Anne, Moreno Rosa, Hall Victoria L, Ribera Angeles B, Downes Gerald B
Abstract excerpt
Analysis of zebrafish mutants that have defects in motor behavior can allow entrée into the hindbrain and spinal cord networks that control locomotion. Here, we report that zebrafish techno trousers (tnt) locomotor mutants harbor a mutation in slc1a2b, which encodes Eaat2b, a plasma membrane glutamate transporter. We used tnt mutants to explore the effects of impaired glutamate transporter activity on locomotor...
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