behavior/neurological
• grooming behavior and anxiety-related behaviors are reduced following treatment with fluoxetine for 6 days whereas grooming behavior in similarly treated wild-type mice is unchanged
• treatment with fluoxetine for 6 days reduced the number of sleeping bouts and increased the sleeping time per bout
• however, a single treatment of fluoxetine has no effect on grooming behavior
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• in a dark-light test, mice take more time to cross from the dark to the lit chamber and spent less time in the lit chamber compared to wild-type mice
• however, activity levels overall are normal and treatment with fluoxetine for 6 days reduces anxiety-related behaviors in a dark-light test without affecting total activity levels
• in an elevated zero maze test, mice take longer to cross into the open areas and spent less time exploring than do wild-type mice
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• in an open field test mice spend more time long walls and spend less time exploring than do wild-type mice
• however, activities along the walls and in corners is normal
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• mice exhibit increased grooming bouts and spend more time self-grooming prior to lesion formation than do wild-type mice
• however, grooming behavior is reduced following treatment with fluoxetine for 6 days whereas grooming behavior in similarly treated wild-type mice is unchanged
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• mice sleep less during normal sleeping periods and sleep more during active times compared to wild-type mice
• mice have increased sleeping bouts but the time slept per bout was reduced relative to in wild-type mice
• however, treatment with fluoxetine for 6 days reduces the number of sleeping bouts and increases the sleeping time per bout
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nervous system
• the thickness of the dense layer, but not the light layer, in postsynaptic densities of cortico-striatal synapses is reduced compared to in wild-type mice
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• field excitatory postsynaptic potential (fEPSP) in the presence of picrotoxin is decreased compared to in wild-type mice
• NMDAR-dependent fEPSP amplitudes are increased relative to in wild-type mice
• however, axon excitability and presynaptic function are normal as is CA3-CA1 hippocampal basal synaptic transmission
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• NMDAR-dependent fEPSP amplitudes are increased relative to in wild-type mice
• however, CA3-CA1 hippocampal basal synaptic transmission is normal
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integument
skin lesions
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J:125181
)
• by 4 to 6 months, all mice develop lesions on their heads, neck and snout regions
• lesions begin as hairless skin under eyes, or swelling of the snout and progress to relatively symmetrical bilateral lesions encompassing large parts of the head and neck
• skin with lesions contains increased lymphocytic/granulocytic infiltrate
• however, pre-lesion mouse skin is normal
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