Mouse Behavioral Phenotyping Relevant Publications

Harrington AJ, Bridges CM, Berto S, Blankenship K, Cho JY, Assali A, Siemsen BM, Moore HW, Tsvetkov E, Thielking A, Konopka G, Everman DB, Scofield MD, Skinner SA, Cowan CW. MEF2C Hypofunction in Neuronal and Neuroimmune Populations Produces MEF2C Haploinsufficiency Syndrome-like Behaviors in Mice. Biol Psychiatry. 2020 Sep 15;88(6):488-499. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.03.011. Epub 2020 Mar 31. PMID: 32418612; PMCID: PMC7483399.

Penrod RD, Kumar J, Smith LN, McCalley D, Nentwig TB, Hughes BW, Barry GM, Glover K, Taniguchi M, Cowan CW. Activity-regulated cytoskeleton-associated protein (Arc/Arg3.1) regulates anxiety- and novelty-related behaviors. Genes Brain Behav. 2019 Sep;18(7):e12561. doi: 10.1111/gbb.12561. Epub 2019 Apr 15. PMID: 30761730; PMCID: PMC6692244.

Taniguchi M, Carreira MB, Cooper YA, Bobadilla AC, Heinsbroek JA, Koike N, Larson EB, Balmuth EA, Hughes BW, Penrod RD, Kumar J, Smith LN, Guzman D, Takahashi JS, Kim TK, Kalivas PW, Self DW, Lin Y, Cowan CW. HDAC5 and Its Target Gene, Npas4, Function in the Nucleus Accumbens to Regulate Cocaine-Conditioned Behaviors. Neuron. 2017 Sep 27;96(1):130-144.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.015. PMID: 28957664; PMCID: PMC5761688.

Harrington AJ, Raissi A, Rajkovich K, Berto S, Kumar J, Molinaro G, Raduazzo J, Guo Y, Loerwald K, Konopka G, Huber KM, Cowan CW. MEF2C regulates cortical inhibitory and excitatory synapses and behaviors relevant to neurodevelopmental disorders. Elife. 2016 Oct 25;5:e20059. doi: 10.7554/eLife.20059. PMID: 27779093; PMCID: PMC5094851.