Major defects in neocortical GABAergic inhibitory circuits in mice lacking the fragile X mental retardation protein
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Acknowledgement
Leah Selby is a recipient of NSF-Wyoming–EPSCoR summer and fall undergraduate research fellowship award. This research was made possible by NIH-NCRR grant P20 RR16474-04. Confocal microscopy was performed in the University of Wyoming's Microscopy Core Facility. We thank Dr. William T. Greenough at the University of Illinois, Urbana, for generously providing the first generation of FMR1KO mice and their background WT strain and for providing genotyping protocols.
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