Posts Tagged
‘Myelin’

December 8, 2021

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by: admin

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Tags: Affects, Autismlinked, cognition, deletion, DNA, explain, Loss, Myelin, Spectrum

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Categories: autism

Missing myelin: Clearing TBX1 in mice decreases the amount of myelin around axons in several areas of the white matter of the brain. Courtesy of Hiroi Nonaka Mice lacking a copy of TBX1, a gene in the autism-linked 22q11.2 chromosomal region, are producing too little myelin – the fatty insulation that surrounds neurons – and […]