LITERATURE · PEER REVIEWED

Chemogenetic inhibition of prefrontal cortex ameliorates autism-like social deficits and absence-like seizures in a gene-trap Ash1l haploinsufficiency mouse model

Genes · 2024 · Peer reviewed

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Citation and identifiers

Ma K, et al.. “Chemogenetic inhibition of prefrontal cortex ameliorates autism-like social deficits and absence-like seizures in a gene-trap Ash1l haploinsufficiency mouse model.” Genes. 15(12):1619 · doi:10.3390/genes15121619.

PubMed ID
39766886

RESEARCH QUESTION

Does chemogenetic inhibition of prefrontal cortex reduce social deficits and absence-like seizures in the tested Ash1l haploinsufficiency mouse model?

The mouse experiment links prefrontal hyperexcitability to behavioral and seizure-related phenotypes and tests circuit suppression without establishing a human therapy or universal mechanism.

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What this study supports

Links prefrontal-cortex hyperexcitability to social and seizure-related phenotypes in a mouse model and tests circuit-level chemogenetic suppression.

What it cannot establish

Circuit intervention in mice is not evidence for a human therapy or for a single cortical mechanism across ASH1L variants.

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