$76,600 This grant to Dr. Elgersma and his colleagues, built further upon his earlier significant work demonstrating that many of the neurological and behavioral features of the Angelman mouse model could be reversed by changing the phosphorylation status of an […]
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$200,000 (2 years) Previous work on a major synaptic protein, Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein Kinase II (CaMKII), suggests that it has a central role in producing the developmental deficits in Angelman syndrome (AS). This research seeks to better understand how CaMKII activity […]
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$200,000 – 2-years While it has been appreciated for some time that loss-of-function mutations in the UBE3A gene are the primary causative factor for Angelman syndrome (AS), the precise mechanisms by which the loss of Ube3A in the nervous system […]
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