Ventral hippocampal lesion, tetrodotoxin disruption of the ventral hippocampus, and chronic administration of neuroleptics (colan-affy-rat-89421)

In pevious research we have shown that the disruption of the normal development of the ventral hippocampus in rodents leads to cellular abnormalities in the frontal cortex and behavioral deficits related to schizophenia (Neurotox Res. 2002, 4(5-6):469-475). We propose the use of gene expression analysis to investigate the molecular underpinnings of these processes which may shed light on the molecular processes relevant to human schizophrenia. In addition, we seek to characterize expression differences induced by chronic administration of antipsychotic medications, which may give insight into the molecular processes involved in ameliorating psychotic symptoms.

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