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Nest building is impaired in the Ts65Dn mouse model of Down syndrome and rescued by blocking 5HT2a receptors.
Neurobiology of learning and memory - 1 Dec 2014
Heller H Craig, Salehi Ahmad, Chuluun Bayarsaikhan, Das Devsmita, Lin Bill, Moghadam Sarah, Garner Craig C, Colas Damien
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Down syndrome (DS) has an incidence of about 1/700 births, and is therefore the most common cause of cognitive and behavioral impairments in children. Recent studies on mouse models of DS indicate that a number of pharmacotherapies could be beneficial for restoring cognitive abilities in individuals with DS. Attention deficits that are present in DS account in part for learning and memory deficiencies yet have...
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