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Symbol NTRK2 contributors: mct/shn - updated : 05-07-2016
HGNC name neurotrophic tyrosine kinase, receptor, type 2
HGNC id 8032
ANIMAL & CELL MODELS
  • knockout of trkB restricted to the mouse forebrain during postnatal development leads to increasingly impaired learning behavior or inappropriate coping responses when facing complex and/or stressful learning paradigms, impairment LTP at CA1 hippocampal synapses
  • inhibitory interneurons are strongly affected, express reduced amounts of GABAergic markers and develop reduced numbers of GABAergic boutons and synaptic specializations in cerebellum of TrkB mutant mice
  • mouse mutants that expresses the BDNF receptor TrkB at a quarter of the normal amount showed hyperphagia and excessive weight gain on higher-fat diets
  • trkB(CaMKII-CRE) mice with a trkB-receptor disruption in the forebrain showed a stereotyped hyper-locomotion with reduced explorative activity, and impulsive reactions to novel stimuli
  • in vivo conditional deletion of TrkB from mature motor neurons attenuates mutant superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) toxicity