behavior/neurological
• mutants show impaired fear-related learning in an auditory fear conditioning test
• mutants show much weaker freezing responses prior to administration of conditioned stimulus in the novel chamber 24 hours after conditioning compared to wild-type
• mice fail to acquire the conditione-unconditioned stimulus association compared to wild-type
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nervous system
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• mutants show relatively normal basic synaptic transmission properties
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• thalamo-amygdala afferent tetanic stimulation induces increased Tyr-1472 phosphorylation in mutant brains compared to wild-type
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• in lateral nucleus of amygdala (LA), long term potentiation is significantly smaller than wild-type when the conditioning stimulus is delivered
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