Pregnenolone Rescues Schizophrenia-Like Behavior in Dopamine Transporter Knockout Mice

Peiyan Wong; Cecilia Chin Roei Chang; Christine E. Marx; Marc G. Caron; William C. Wetsel; Xiaodong Zhang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051455

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Pregnenolone Rescues Schizophrenia-Like Behavior in Dopamine Transporter Knockout Mice

Peiyan Wong,

Affiliation Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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Cecilia Chin Roei Chang,

Affiliation Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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Christine E. Marx,

Affiliations Durham VA Medical Center, Department of Veterans Affairs, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Marc G. Caron,

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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William C. Wetsel,

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Xiaodong Zhang

* E-mail: xiaodong.zhang@duke-nus.edu.sg

Affiliations Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Physiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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Pregnenolone Rescues Schizophrenia-Like Behavior in Dopamine Transporter Knockout Mice

Peiyan Wong,
Cecilia Chin Roei Chang,
Christine E. Marx,
Marc G. Caron,
William C. Wetsel,
Xiaodong Zhang

Published: December 11, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051455

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