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Thalamic miR-338-3p mediates auditory thalamocortical disruption and its late onset in models of 22q11.2 microdeletion.
Nature medicine - 1 Jan 2017
Chun Sungkun, Du Fei, Westmoreland Joby J, Han Seung Baek, Wang Yong-Dong, Eddins Donnie, Bayazitov Ildar T, Devaraju Prakash, Yu Jing, Mellado Lagarde Marcia M, Anderson Kara, Zakharenko Stanislav S
Abstract excerpt
Although 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) is associated with early-life behavioral abnormalities, affected individuals are also at high risk for the development of schizophrenia symptoms, including psychosis, later in life. Auditory thalamocortical (TC) projections recently emerged as a neural circuit that is specifically disrupted in mouse models of 22q11DS (hereafter referred to as 22q11DS mice), in which...
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