Two Studies Identify a Potential Risk Factor in Neurodevelopmental Disorders (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Two Studies Identify a Potential Risk Factor in Neurodevelopmental Disorders (1 of 1)

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Formation of neuronal spines in neurons from wild type mice (left) and mice with mutations in the KCC2 transporter. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 16, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Watanabe at Hamamatsu University School of Medicine in Hamamatsu, Japan; and colleagues was titled, "Developmentally regulated KCC2 phosphorylation is essential for dynamic GABA-mediated inhibition and survival."

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[Credit: M. Watanabe <i>et al., Science Signaling</i> (2019)]

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