nervous system
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• mice exhibit normal hippocampal synaptic transmission and plasticity
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• the corpus callosum, ventral hippocampal commissure and anterior commissure exhibit a loss of fiber tracts compared with control mice
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• lack of midline
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• the anterior portion of the anterior commissure lacks a midline
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• greatly reduced posterior portion of the anterior commissure
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• the interhemispheric crossing of the ventral hippocampal commissure is absent at the medial longitudinal fissure
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• the interhemispheric crossing of the ventral hippocampal commissure is absent at the medial longitudinal fissure
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behavior/neurological
• mice exhibit less freezing compared with wild-type mice
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• in a Morris water maze, mice fail to learn the location of a hidden platform and fail to exhibit a strong spatial bias for the zone where the platform was located unlike wild-type mice
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• impaired bimanual motor coordination in a grid test
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growth/size/body
• at 3 weeks
• however, mice recover weight by 3 months
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• some mice fail to thrive
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