Prophylactic valproic acid treatment prevents schizophrenia-related behaviour in Disc1-L100P mutant mice.

Schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental disorder with onset early in adulthood. Disrupted-In-Schizophrenia-1 (DISC1) is a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Disc1-L100P mutant mice show behaviors relevant to schizophrenia at 12 weeks, but not at 8 weeks of age, and...

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Main Authors: Tatiana V Lipina, Fahmida Nipa Haque, Alexander McGirr, Paul C Boutros, Thorsten Berger, Tak W Mak, John C Roder, Albert H C Wong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3525594?pdf=render