one gene shy of confidence


	one gene shy of confidence

doodleicious

7-11-2009 11:03 AM

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emotional, behavior

doodleicious says:

moral of story....hang onto your "jeans"...kidding.....trippy lil story though- more at source

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Animal behavior is typically the outcome of conflicting emotions. The novel mouse shows abnormal approach, but not avoidance, behavior. So researchers can use it to dissect how emotions make us decide to approach or avoid, which may provide a key to understanding shyness.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rikenresearch.riken.jp/research/741/"><DIV>
Group leader Shigeyoshi Itohara and colleagues at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Wako and at Hokkaido University genetically engineered a mouse strain in which the <EM>X11L</EM> gene was purposefully deleted or ‘knocked out’. The researchers recently published a detailed analysis of the mutant mice in <EM>The Journal of Neuroscience</EM><SUP>1</SUP>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rikenresearch.riken.jp/research/741/"><DIV>
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