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ArticleGenes, brain, and behavior2014

Hidden in plain sight: spike-wave discharges in mouse inbred strains.

V A Letts, B J Beyer, W N Frankel

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Article in Genes, brain, and behavior, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

V A LettsThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA.
B J Beyer
W N Frankel
Jackson Laboratory · US

Funding

GENETIC DETERMINANTS OF EPILEPSY IN MURINE SYSTEMSR01NS031348 · NINDS · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI SANDS, TRISTAN T · 1993 to 2025
$11.5M
Genetic Determinants of Epilepsy in Murine SystemsR37NS031348 · NINDS · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI FRANKEL, WAYNE N. · 2014 to 2020
$5.8M
NINDS NIH HHS NS031348NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS031348NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS031348
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Twenty-seven inbred strains of mice were tested for spike-wave discharge (SWD) activity by video-electroencephalographic recordings over a 24-h recording period. Eight strains had reproducible, frequent SWDs, including five strains (C57BLKS/J, CBA/J, DBA/1J, NOR/LtJ, SM/J) previously undiagnosed for this distinctive phenotype. Eighteen other strains exhibited no such activity. Spike-wave discharges usually occurred while the subject was motionless, and in a significant number of annotated instances coincided with an arrest of the subject's relatively unrestrained locomotor activity, which resumed immediately after the discharge ended. In all five new strains, SWDs were suppressed by ethosuximide administration. From the genealogy of inbred strains, we suggest that two ancestors, A and DBA, transmitted genotypes required for SWD in all positive strains. Together these strains with SWDs provide new opportunities to understand the genetic core susceptibility of this distinctive electroencephalographic activity and to explore its relationship to absence epilepsy, a human disorder for which few genes are known.

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AnimalsBrain WavesEpilepsy, AbsenceMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, Inbred CBAMice, Inbred DBAAbsence epilepsygenetic inheritancemouse EEGsrodentstrain survey

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PMID24861780
PMCPMC4091912
OpenAlexW2036979981

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