Deficiency of Vlgr1 resulted in deafness and susceptibility to audiogenic seizures while the degree of hearing impairment was not correlated with seizure severity in C57BL/6- and 129-backcrossed lines of Vlgr1 knockout mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 461, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 190-195

  Yagi, Hideshi ^a,b   Noguchi, Yoshihiro ^c   Kitamura, Ken ^c   Sato, Makoto ^a,b  

^a Faculty of Medical Sciences   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Epilepsy; Genetic model

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERY LARGE G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 1;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDIOGENIC SEIZURE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BACKCROSSING; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; INCIDENCE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; RUNNING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DEAFNESS; EPILEPSY, REFLEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEARING LOSS; INBREEDING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SEIZURES;

EID: 67649649917     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.06.012     Document Type: Article

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