Analysis Tools
behavior/neurological
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• increase in mechanical pain sensitivity relative to wild-type, as shown by a decrease in the threshold for mechanical pain production in the von Frey filament test
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nervous system
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• altered GABA-mediated spinal cord response; the effect of GABA on depolarization potentials is less effective than in wild-type
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taste/olfaction
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• mutants are more sensitive to the smell of citral odorant than wild-type mice, moving out of the chamber containing the odorant significantly faster than controls
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