Vertebrate Intersectin1 Is Repurposed to Facilitate Cortical Midline Connectivity and Higher Order Cognition

Table 2.

FA changes

White matter regions Fractional anisotropy
Wild type (n = 8) Itsn1Gt/Gt (n = 10)
Anterior commissure—Pars anterior 0.68 ± 0.04 0.47 ± 0.03**
Anterior commissure—Pars posterior 0.68 ± 0.03 0.56 ± 0.03**
Arbor vita of the cerebellum 0.67 ± 0.03 0.65 ± 0.03
Cerebellar peduncle—Inferior 0.89 ± 0.02 0.87 ± 0.03
Cerebellar peduncle—Middle 0.87 ± 0.09 0.88 ± 0.05
Cerebellar peduncle—Superior 0.59 ± 0.02 0.54 ± 0.02**
Cerebral peduncle 0.88 ± 0.06 0.86 ± 0.03
Corpus callosum 0.69 ± 0.03 0.60 ± 0.02**
Cortical spinal tract 0.66 ± 0.02 0.66 ± 0.03
Fasciculus retroflexus 0.62 ± 0.03 0.58 ± 0.02*
Fimbria 0.86 ± 0.02 0.72 ± 0.02**
Fornix 0.68 ± 0.03 0.54 ± 0.03**
Habenular commissure 0.37 ± 0.04 0.30 ± 0.03**
Internal capsule 0.84 ± 0.03 0.79 ± 0.02*
Lateral olfactory tract 0.56 ± 0.07 0.59 ± 0.04
Mammilothalamic tract 0.58 ± 0.02 0.56 ± 0.02
Medical lemniscus/Medial longitudinal fasciculus 0.55 ± 0.02 0.52 ± 0.02
Optic tract 0.81 ± 0.05 0.75 ± 0.03*
Posterior commissure 0.35 ± 0.02 0.35 ± 0.02
  • The mean FA values for each region of interest.

  • ↵* indicates significance based on an FDR of <0.05 or ** <0.01 with respect to wild type.

  1. The Journal of Neuroscience vol. 33 no. 9 4055-4065
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