Genetic models of schizophrenia. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Akira Sawa.
• Other Names: Sawa, Akira
• Contents: Genetic animal models for schizophrenia: advantages and limitations of genetic manipulation in drosophila, zebrafish, rodents, and primates -- Novel techniques to generate genetic models -- Animal models for schizophrenia via in utero gene transfer: understanding roles for genetic susceptibility factors in brain development -- Gene manipulation with of stereotaxic viral infection for psychiatric research: spatiotemporal components for schizophrenia -- ENU-induced mutant mice for a next-generation gene-targeting system -- Inducible and conditional transgenic mouse models of schizophrenia -- Representative models -- NR1 knockdown mice as a representative model of the glutamate hypothesis of schizophrenia -- Modeling excess striatal D2 receptors in mice -- Differential function of phosphodieterase families in the brain: gaining insights through the use of genetically modified animals -- Gene models of schizophrenia: DISC1 mouse models -- Sandy (sdy) mouse: a dysbindin-1 mutant relevant to schizophrenia research -- Other than rodents -- Zebrafish: a model system to examine the neurodevelopmental basis of schizophrenia -- Modeling schizophrenia in flies -- Primate models of schizophrenia: future possibilities.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Elsevier Science
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (144 pages)
• Subjects: 616.898042; Schizophrenia -- Genetic aspects; Schizophrenia -- genetics; Disease Models, Animal; Models, Genetic
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080962238; 0080962238
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