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Dietary Intake of Octanoic Acid Restores UBE3A Expression and Improves the Behavioral Phenotypes in a Mouse Model of Angelman Syndrome
25 Apr 2025
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ABSTRACT Angelman syndrome (AS) is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder with no effective therapies. Most of the behavioral deficits observed in AS patients arise from the absence of ubiquitin protein ligase E3A (UBE3A) in the brain during development, driven by the loss of maternally expressed UBE3A and silencing of the paternal copy of this gene through imprinting. Safe and effective therapies aiming at...
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