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SUBMITTER: Bureau I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2696604 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bureau Ingrid I Shepherd Gordon M G GM Svoboda Karel K
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20080501 20
Silencing of the Fmr1 gene causes fragile X syndrome. Although defects in synaptic plasticity in the cerebral cortex have been linked to cognitive impairments in Fmr1 knock-out (ko) mice, the specific cortical circuits affected in the syndrome are unknown. Here, we investigated the development of excitatory projections in the barrel cortex of Fmr1 ko mice. In 2-week-old Fmr1 ko mice, a major ascending projection connecting layer 4 (L4) to L3 (L4-->L3), was defective in multiple and independent w ...[more]