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Charting autism’s neural circuitry: Deleting single gene results in autism-like behavior and immunosuppressant drug prevents symptoms
July 3, 2012 by NewsBot
Deleting a single gene in the cerebellum of mice can cause key autistic-like symptoms, researchers have found. They also discovered that rapamycin, a commonly used immunosuppressant drug, prevented these symptoms.
