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Scn1a dysfunction alters behavior but not the effect of stress on seizure response.
Genes, brain, and behavior - 1 Mar 2016
Sawyer N T, Helvig A W, Makinson C D, Decker M J, Neigh G N, Escayg A
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Mutations in the voltage-gated sodium channel gene SCN1A are responsible for a number of epilepsy disorders, including genetic epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+) and Dravet syndrome. In addition, dysfunction in SCN1A is increasingly being linked to neuropsychiatric abnormalities, social deficits and cognitive disabilities. We have previously reported that mice heterozygous for the SCN1A R1648H mutation...
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