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Behavioral Comorbidities and Drug Treatments in a Zebrafish scn1lab Model of Dravet Syndrome.
eNeuro - 1 Jan 2000
Grone Brian P, Qu Tiange, Baraban Scott C
Abstract excerpt
Loss-of-function mutations in SCN1A cause Dravet syndrome (DS), a catastrophic childhood epilepsy in which patients experience comorbid behavioral conditions, including movement disorders, sleep abnormalities, anxiety, and intellectual disability. To study the functional consequences of voltage-gated sodium channel mutations, we use zebrafish with a loss-of-function mutation in scn1lab, a zebrafish homolog of...
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