behavior/neurological
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• mice exhibit normal open field locomotion, hot plate response, and finding of buried food
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• on day 1 of a passive avoidance task, mice spend more time before they entered the mysterious dark compartment compared to wild-type mice
• however, mice display normal avoidance learning on days 2 and 3
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• in a cued conditioning assay, mice exhibit increased freezing compared to wild-type mice
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• in a light-dark exploration test, mice spend less time in the light and made fewer transitions to the light compartment compared to wild-type mice
• mice spend less time interacting with a novel mouse compared to wild-type mice
• in an elevated plus maze, mice exhibit fewer transition to and spend less time in the open arms compared to wild-type mice
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• in a conditioned fear assays, mice exhibit increased freezing compared to wild-type mice
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nervous system
• following treatment with nicotine, mice exhibit a greater increase in spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic current compared to similarly treated wild-type mice
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