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A Role for Sox2 in the Adult Cerebellum
Nikolaos Panagiotis Mandalos1,2, Ioannis Karampelas3, Marannia Saridaki2
1National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Athens, Greece.
Abstract:
The cerebellum, a derivative of the hindbrain, plays a crucial role in balance and posture as well as in higher cognitive and locomotive processes. Cerebellar development is initiated during the segmental phase of hindbrain formation. Here, we describe the phenotype, of a single surviving adult conditional mouse mutant mouse, in which Sox2 function is ablated in embryonic radial glial cells by means of hGFAP-CRE. The single Sox2RGINV/mosaic adult mutant mouse displays motor disability, microsomia, reduced Central Nervous System (CNS) size and cerebellar defects associated with human genetically related congenital abnormalities.
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