STEP inhibition reverses behavioral, electrophysiologic, and synaptic abnormalities in Fmr1 KO mice

M Chatterjee, PK Kurup, CJ Lundbye, AKH Toft… - …, 2018 - Elsevier
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the leading cause of inherited intellectual disability, with
additional symptoms including attention deficit and hyperactivity, anxiety, impulsivity, and …

Modulation of behavioral phenotypes by a muscarinic M1 antagonist in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome

S Veeraragavan, N Bui, JR Perkins, LA Yuva-Paylor… - …, 2011 - Springer
Rationale Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChR) are G protein-coupled receptors,
widely expressed in the CNS. Electrophysiological and molecular studies have provided …

Reduced CYFIP1 in Human Neural Progenitors Results in Dysregulation of Schizophrenia and Epilepsy Gene Networks

RA Nebel, D Zhao, E Pedrosa, J Kirschen… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Deletions encompassing the BP1-2 region at 15q11. 2 increase schizophrenia and epilepsy
risk, but only some carriers have either disorder. To investigate the role of CYFIP1, a gene …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging in awake transgenic fragile X rats: evidence of dysregulation in reward processing in the mesolimbic/habenular neural circuit

WM Kenkel, JR Yee, K Moore, D Madularu… - Translational …, 2016 - nature.com
Anxiety and social deficits, often involving communication impairment, are fundamental
clinical features of fragile X syndrome. There is growing evidence that dysregulation in …

Critical reappraisal of mechanistic links of copy number variants to dimensional constructs of neuropsychiatric disorders in mouse models

N Hiroi - Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Copy number variants are deletions and duplications of a few thousand to million base pairs
and are associated with extraordinarily high levels of autism spectrum disorder …

Primary ciliary deficits in the dentate gyrus of fragile X syndrome

B Lee, S Panda, HY Lee - Stem cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
The primary cilium is the non-motile cilium present in most mammalian cell types and
functions as an antenna for cells to sense signals. Ablating primary cilia in postnatal …

Potential involvement of impaired BKCa channel function in sensory defensiveness and some behavioral disturbances induced by unfamiliar environment in a mouse …

MI Carreno-Munoz, F Martins, MC Medrano… - …, 2018 - nature.com
In fragile X syndrome (FXS), sensory hypersensitivity and impaired habituation is thought to
result in attention overload and various behavioral abnormalities in reaction to the excessive …

Genes and sex hormones interaction in neurodevelopmental disorders

E Romano, L Cosentino, G Laviola… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The prevalence, age of onset and symptomatology of many neurodevelopmental disorders
strongly differ between genders. This review examines sex biases in human …

Fragile X mice have robust mGluR5-dependent alterations of social behaviour in the Automated Tube Test

CEF De Esch, WE van Den Berg, RAM Buijsen… - Neurobiology of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Fragile X syndrome is the most common monogenetic form of intellectual disability and
autism. Although the Fmr1 knockout mouse model recapitulates many aspects of the human …

Inhibition of GluN2A NMDA receptors ameliorates synaptic plasticity deficits in the Fmr1−/y mouse model

CJ Lundbye, AKH Toft, TG Banke - The Journal of physiology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Key points Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a genetic condition that is the most common form of
inherited intellectual impairment and causes a range of neurodevelopmental complications …