behavior/neurological
• mice exhibit impaired memory formation in the cerebellum-dependent delay eye blink conditioning
• using a 450-ms tone conditioned stimulus and a 100-ms periorbital electric shock unconditioned stimulus, mice are slower to acquire conditioned response compared to wild-type mice
• electromyogram amplitude is lower on day 3 but not day 7 compared to wild-type mice
• however, unconditioned response electromyogram amplitude is the same as in wild-type mice
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• mice exhibit impaired coordination on an accelerated rotarod
• however, coordination on a fixed-bar and narrow bar is normal
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nervous system
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• mice exhibit normal cerebellar development, sensory perception and response, and excitatory synaptic transmissions in Purkinje cells
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• mice exhibit impaired cerebellar long term depression (76.8+/-2.4% compared to 61.9+/-2.1% in wild-type mice 21 to 30 minutes after conditioning)
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