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Anxiety- and depressive-like behaviors in olfactory deficient Cnga2 knockout mice.
Behavioural brain research - 15 Dec 2014
Chen Yanmei, Liu Xiaofen, Jia Xianglei, Zong Wei, Ma Yuanye, Xu Fuqiang, Wang Jianhong
Abstract excerpt
There is a close neuroanatomical connection between odor and emotional processing. Olfactory dysfunction is found in various neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders. Here, mice take the cyclic nucleotide gated channel 2 mutant gene (Cnga2), which is critical for olfactory sensory neurons to generate odor induced action potentials were used. The Cnga2 mice were congenitally anosmic. Adult mice were tested...
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