behavior/neurological
• homozygotes have impaired contextual conditioning behavior
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• homozygotes have impaired auditory conditioning behavior but normal hearing
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• homozygotes show no improvement in finding a hidden platform in a water maze over a 2 week training period and swim slower or develop floating behavior in this test, however swimming ability is not impaired
• exploratory and anxiety behaviors are not significantly different from wild typ
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• homozygotes fall off a rotating rod sooner but do improve with training
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nervous system
• long term potentiation is enhanced at high (100 Hz) and very low (1 Hz) frequencies but decreased at low (10 Hz) frequencies
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