Mice Lacking a Set of Receptors (IMAGE)

Salk Institute

Mice Lacking a Set of Receptors

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When mice are engineered to lack the mGluR5 receptor in parvalbumin cells (right), they have fewer inhibitory (red) connections controlling the activity of excitatory neurons.

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