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Meiko Kawamura

Brain Research Institute, Niigata University

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GluD1 knockout mice with a pure C57BL/6N background show impaired fear memory, social interaction, and enhanced depressive-like behavior

Chihiro Nakamoto, Meiko Kawamura, Ena Nakatsukasa, Rie Natsume, Keizo Takao, Masahiko Watanabe, Manabu Abe, Tomonori Takeuchi, Kenji Sakimura

This study shows that GluD1 knockout mice exhibit impaired fear memory, reduced sociability, and enhanced depressive-like behavior, with antidepressant effects observed with serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

PLoS ONE · Feb 20, 2020Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Dissociating orexin-dependent and -independent functions of orexin neurons using novel orexin-Flp knock-in mice

Srikanta Chowdhury, Chi Jung Hung, Shuntaro Izawa, Ayumu Inutsuka, Meiko Kawamura, Takashi Kawashima, Haruhiko Bito, Itaru Imayoshi, Manabu Abe, Kenji Sakimura, Akihiro Yamanaka

This study uses orexin-Flp knock-in mice to distinguish orexin-dependent and -independent functions of orexin neurons, finding orexin is essential for sustained arousal and basic neuronal properties.

eLife · Jun 3, 2019Peer-reviewedNeuroscience