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SUBMITTER: Porton B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3185065 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Porton Barbara B Wetsel William C WC Kao Hung-Teh HT
Seminars in cell & developmental biology 20110601 4
Synapsin III was discovered in 1998, more than two decades after the first two synapsins (synapsins I and II) were identified. Although the biology of synapsin III is not as well understood as synapsins I and II, this gene is emerging as an important factor in the regulation of the early stages of neurodevelopment and dopaminergic neurotransmission, and in certain neuropsychiatric illnesses. Molecular genetic and clinical studies of synapsin III have determined that its neurodevelopmental effect ...[more]