Brief Communications Impairment of Select Forms of Spatial Memory and Neurotrophin-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity by Deletion of Glial Aquaporin-4

Vanessa A. Skucas,1 Ian B. Mathews,1 Jianmin Yang,2 Qi Cheng,1 Andrew Treister,3 Aine M. Duffy,1 Alan S. Verkman,4 Barbara L. Hempstead,2 Marcelo A. Wood,3 Devin K. Binder,5 and Helen E. Scharfman1,6 1The Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Center for Dementia Research, Orangeburg, New York 10962, 2Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10065, 3Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, 4Departments of Medicine and Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0521, 5Center for Glial-Neuronal Interactions, Division of Biomedical Sciences, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, and 6Departments of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychiatry, and Physiology & Neuroscience, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York 10016