Endogenous dynorphin in emotional control and stress response revisited
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Background We recently demonstrated a clearly anxiolytic phenotype of prodynorphin-deficient (dynKO) mice on the C57bl/ 6N background. However, other groups observed a less prominent and partially paradigm-dependent anxiogenic phenotype or even anxiogenic phenotype of other dynKO mice. Therefore we backcrossed our dynKO mice onto the balb/c background and evaluated their anxiety-related behaviour.
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