behavior/neurological
• less sensitive to intracerebroventricular NMDA-induced convulsions
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• acquisition of a task in a water maze is impaired, with significantly lower escape latencies, however they achieve a similar final level of performance as controls
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• significantly higher startle response to 90 and 110 dB and a lower threshold for startle reactivity
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• impaired motor coordination in hanging wire test, with homozygotes unable to lift hindpaws onto the wire
• reduced activity in horiontal open field test
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• spend significantly more time in the center of a cage than controls
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nervous system
• exhibit reduced NMDA receptor glycine affinity, but not glutamate affinity, and do not have any gross CNS abnormalities
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• less sensitive to intracerebroventricular NMDA-induced convulsions
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• exhibit a deficit in hippocampal theta burst-induced LTP
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