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Neurobehavioral Anomalies in the Pitx3/ak Murine Model of Parkinson's Disease and MPTP.
Behavior genetics - 1 Mar 2016
Filali Mohammed, Lalonde Robert
Abstract excerpt
Pitx3/ak null mutants are characterized by basal ganglia pathology in a manner resembling Parkinson's disease (PD), with decline in substantia nigra cell numbers as well as striatal tyrosine hydroxylase expression. Although young adult Pitx3/ak mutants were deficient in motor coordination tests, they were more active than non-transgenic controls in the open-field, unlike PD-related bradykinesia. On the SHIRPA...
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