Motor hypertonia and lack of locomotor coordination in mutant mice lacking DSCAM
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Motor hypertonia and lack of locomotor coordination in mutant mice lacking DSCAM.
Down syndrome cell adherence molecule (DSCAM) contributes to the normal establishment and maintenance of neural circuits. Whereas there is abundant literature regarding the role of DSCAM in the neural patterning of the mammalian retina, less is known about motor circuits. Recently, DSCAM mutation has been shown to impair bilateral motor coordination during respiration, thus causing death at bir...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurophysiology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0022-3077,1522-1598
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00556.2015