Mouse model of Timothy syndrome recapitulates triad of autistic traits

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 37, 2011, Pages 15432-15437

  Bader, Patrick L ^a   Faizi, Mehrdad ^a,c   Kim, Leo H ^a   Owen, Scott F ^a   Tadross, Michael R ^a   Alfa, Ronald W ^a   Bett, Glenna C L ^b   Tsien, Richard W ^a   Rasmusson, Randall L ^b   Shamloo, Mehrdad ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

CACNA1C; Channelopathy; Communication; Mouse model of psychiatric disease; Sociability

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPULSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEAR; GENE MUTATION; HEALTH; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERSEVERATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL; TIMOTHY SYNDROME; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CUES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; HETEROZYGOTE; LONG QT SYNDROME; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYNDACTYLY; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; MUS; PHLEUM PRATENSE;

EID: 80053064177     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1112667108     Document Type: Article

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