NeuroscienceGenes Brain & BehaviorPeer-reviewed
Cognitive deficits and increases in creatine precursors in a brain-specific knockout of the creatine transporter gene Slc6a8
Kenea C Udobi, Amanda N. Kokenge, Emily R. Hautman…·Matthew R. Skelton
This study creates brain-specific Slc6a8 knockout mice and shows that reduced cerebral creatine causes cognitive deficits without affecting swim speed, unlike ubiquitous knockout mice.
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