behavior/neurological
• significant reduction in total distance traveled in a new environment
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• inability to locate platform in hidden-platform task of Morris Water Maze
• in the visible-platform task, initially take longer to reach the platform, but after 3 sessions are as fast as controls
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• complete loss of righting reflex by Irwin screening
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• between the second and third week after birth, action tremor and errors in metric of movements become evident
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• evident beginning between the second and third week after birth, exhibit impaired balance and a wide-based standing position
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nervous system
• impaired hippocampal mossy fiber long-term potentiation, however no gross anatomical abnormalities in the hippocampus, cerebellum, or elsewhere, no detectable defects in active or passive membrane properties or synaptic responses of the cerebellum, and normal electrophysiology of hippocampus
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• impaired cerebellar long-term depression
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