IgSF9b regulates anxiety behaviors through effects on centromedial amygdala inhibitory synapses

IgSF9b is a synaptic adhesion protein that has been linked to psychiatric disorders. Here the authors show that deletion of IgSF9b regulates anxiety-like behaviour in mice by increasing inhibitory synaptic transmission in the centromedial amygdala.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Olga Babaev, Hugo Cruces-Solis, Carolina Piletti Chatain, Matthieu Hammer, Sally Wenger, Heba Ali, Nikolaos Karalis, Livia de Hoz, Oliver M. Schlüter, Yuchio Yanagawa, Hannelore Ehrenreich, Holger Taschenberger, Nils Brose, Dilja Krueger-Burg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07762-1