Astrocyte Loss in Mice with Human Stuttering Gene (IMAGE)

NIH/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Astrocyte Loss in Mice with Human Stuttering Gene

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In the corpus callosum (the area of the brain that enables the left and right hemispheres to communicate) of mice engineered with a human stuttering mutation (lower panel), there are fewer astrocytes, shown in green, than in normal mice (upper panel).

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Tae-Un Han, Ph.D., National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

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