Journal: Experimental Neurology
Article Title: Disruption of the Zdhhc9 intellectual disability gene leads to behavioural abnormalities in a mouse model
doi: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2018.06.014
Figure Lengend Snippet: Performance of Zdhhc9 mutant and WT mice in the Morris water maze. Distance moved (A), latency (B) and mean velocity (C) during the 5 acquisition days of the experiment are shown. Statistics were conducted using general linear model, repeated measures in SPSS version 22 with experiment day as the within-subjects factor and genotype as the between-subjects factor; F(1,44) = 8.935, p = .005 for effect of genotype on distance moved, F(4,176) = 27.647, p < .001 for effect of day on distance moved while no interaction was found between day and genotype with F(4,176) = 1.020 and p = .399. F(1,44) = 9.677, p = .003 for effect of genotype on latency, F(4,176) = 23.499 and p < .001 for effect of day on latency while no interaction was found between day and genotype with F(4,176) = 0.868 and p = .484 ( n = 26 WT, 20 mutant). The effect of genotype on velocity was non-significant. (D) Time spent in quadrants during the first 30 s and last 30 s of the probe trial to assess reference memory are shown. Statistics were conducted using general linear model, repeated measures in SPSS version 22; F(1,44) = 49.573, p < .001 for effect of quadrant during the first 30 s and F(1,44) = 41.805, p < .001 for effect of quadrant during the last 30 s (n = 26 WT, 20 mutant). (E) Time spent to reach the visible platform for WT and Zdhhc9 mutant mice during the visual cue trial of Morris water maze. Statistics were conducted using unpaired t -test in Minitab version 17; t(42) = −0.92, p = ns for effect of genotype (n = 26 WT, 20 mutant).
Article Snippet: Primary antibodies used for immunoblotting were as follows: mouse beta actin (Abcam, ab8226, 1:3000), rat HA (Roche, 1:1000), rabbit zDHHC9 (St John's Laboratory, STJ92709, 1:1000), rabbit H-Ras (Santa Cruz, SC-520, 1:300), rabbit GAPDH (Cell Signaling, 14C10, 1:1000), mouse syntaxin (Sigma, HPC-1, 1:1000).
Techniques: Mutagenesis