behavior/neurological
• homozygous female mice fail adequately to care for their litters
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nervous system
• in the absence of Ca2+, only about 25% as much 125I-alpha-latrotoxin binds to membranes isolated from brains of homozygous mutant mice as from wild-type mice
• in the presence of Ca2+, about 50% as much 125I-alpha-latrotoxin binds to brain membranes from homozygous mutant mice as from wild-type mice; binding in the presence of Ca2+ is approximately 2-fold that in its absence
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• although the kinetics of K+-depolarization-stimulated glutamate release in the presence of Ca2+ from synaptosomes isolated from homozygous mutant and wild-type brains are similar, alpha-latrotoxin-stimulated glutamate release from synaptosomes of mutant brains is reduced to approximately 25% that from wild-type synaptosomes in the presence or absence of Ca2+
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