Figure 1.
Breeding strategy for generating the Shank3GCreTam mouse line. Heterozygous Shank3+/G mice from the original Shank3G mouse line were crossed with a tamoxifen-inducible CreTam transgenic mouse line to produce Shank3+/GCreTam− and Shank3+/GCreTam+ offspring. Shank3+/GCreTam− and Shank3+/GCreTam+ mice from this initial cross were bred to generate all experimental mice for this study: Shank3+/+CreTam−, Shank3+/GCreTam−, Shank3G/GCreTam−, Shank3+/+CreTam+, Shank3+/GCreTam+, and Shank3G/GCreTam+.