BMD RES 10H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disorder, Fear Conditioning
11 Oct 2017
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More specifically, her lab analyzes the overexpression of cyfip1, which is a gene within the chromosome of dup15q, by comparing the behaviors of transgenic mice that carries cyfip1 with normal wild type mice. She set up many stimulations including mazes and field tests to analyze the mice on intellectual and social levels. Another noticeable experiment that showed favorable result was the auditory and contextual fear conditioning test in which the. Cyfip1 mice showed more conditioned fears from the shock, tracing back to the abnormal sensory processing from one of asd characteristics. These were two key data that supported dr.
