behavior/neurological
• null mice have a deficit in fear-potentiated startle (FPS) vs wild-type; mice generate greater startle responses compared to wild-type mice in presence of tone before fear conditioning (ie. P0 - first testing session)
• all males show an increase in FPS initially (from P0 to P1) but FPS decreases from that point in knockout and knockdown mice; in wild-type and heterozygotes, amplitudes of startle responses continue to increase
• wild-type and heterozygous males acquire conditioned fear over the course of the test, but null and knockdown mice do not
• females do not show any proportional increases in FPS
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nervous system
• Timp2-null mice have significantly reduced prepulse inhibition (PPI)
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