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Loss of EphA4 impairs short-term spatial recognition memory performance and locomotor habituation.
Genes, brain, and behavior - 1 Nov 2012
Willi R, Winter C, Wieske F, Kempf A, Yee B K, Schwab M E, Singer P
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EphA4 receptor (EphA4) tyrosine kinase is an important regulator of central nervous system development and synaptic plasticity in the mature brain, but its relevance to the control of normal behavior remains largely unexplored. This study is the first attempt to obtain a behavioral profile of constitutive homozygous and heterozygous EphA4 knockout mice. A deficit in locomotor habituation in the open field,...
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