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Dichotomous Intrinsic Properties of Adult Accumbens Medium Spiny Neurons Vanish in the Fragile X Mouse Model of Autism
2022-07-06
Abstract excerpt
Fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most common cause of autism and inherited intellectual disability, is caused by the mutation of a single gene, fmr1 , which encodes the Fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP). FXS patients suffer from cognitive, emotional, and social deficits indicative of dysfunction in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), a structure central to the control of social behavior. The major cell type of th...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1a640232-f6a9-55d3-a2e4-f5c7c3874c27
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.07.06.498928
