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Potential molecular mechanisms for decreased synaptic glutamate release in dysbindin-1 mutant mice.
Schizophrenia research - 1 May 2013
Saggu Shalini, Cannon Tyrone D, Jentsch J David, Lavin Antonieta
Abstract excerpt
Behavioral genetic studies of humans have associated variation in the DTNBP1 gene with schizophrenia and its cognitive deficit phenotypes. The protein encoded by DTNBP1, dysbindin-1, is expressed in forebrain neurons where it interacts with proteins mediating vesicular trafficking and exocytosis. It has been shown that loss of dysbindin-1 results in a decrease in glutamate release in the prefrontal cortex;...
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