behavior/neurological
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• working memory and contextual fear responses are comparable to conrols; null mice do not show altered susceptibility to pharmacologically-induced seizures
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• mice show reduced performance in cued fear conditioning tests
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• in tail-suspension test, mutants show a longer latency to first immobilization; however, total immobility times are comparable to controls
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• null mice display reduced latencies vs wild-type in a tail flick test, but have normal pain and shock thresholds
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• mutants show improved pre-pulse inhibition compared to wild-type in an auditory stimulus test
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• null mice show significant motor deficits as assessed by the rotarod and hanging wire tests, although muscle strength is comparable to wild-type
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