behavior/neurological
• homozygotes spend more time in the marginal zone of the open field and make fewer movements, however their Basso-Beattie-Bresnahan score (a measure of locomotor function) is normal
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• mutants perform worse on the rotarod compared to wild-type and heterozygous littermates
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nervous system
• mutants show improved recovery after spinal cord injury involving midthoracic dorsal hemisection injury or complete transection at thoracic level 8 as measured by improved locomotor activity and restored transcranial magnetic motor-evoked potentials
• rubrospinal axons and raphespinal fibers regenerate following transection injury and can be detected crossing the lesion site
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