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Regulation of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Exocytosis and Gamma-Aminobutyric Acidergic Interneuron Synapse by the Schizophrenia Susceptibility Gene Dysbindin-1.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Aug 2016
Yuan Qiang, Yang Feng, Xiao Yixin, Tan Shawn, Husain Nilofer, Ren Ming, Hu Zhonghua, Martinowich Keri, Ng Julia S, Kim Paul J, Han Weiping, Nagata Koh-Ichi, Weinberger Daniel R, Je H Shawn
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Genetic variations in dystrobrevin binding protein 1 (DTNBP1 or dysbindin-1) have been implicated as risk factors in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. The encoded protein dysbindin-1 functions in the regulation of synaptic activity and synapse development. Intriguingly, a loss of function mutation in Dtnbp1 in mice disrupted both glutamatergic and gamma-aminobutyric acidergic transmission in the...
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