Altered activity, social behavior, and spatial memory in mice lacking the NTAN1p amidase and the asparagine branch of the n-end rule pathway

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 4135-4148

  Kwon, Yong Tae ^a   Balogh, Seth A ^b   Davydov, Ilia V ^a   Kashina, Anna S ^a   Yoon, Jeong Kyo ^a   Xie, Youming ^a   Gaur, Arti ^a,c   Hyde, Lynn ^b,d   Denenberg, Victor H ^b   Varshavsky, Alexander ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; ASPARAGINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMB BUD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL MEMORY; TAIL;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANIMALS; ASPARAGINE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0001687306     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.11.4135-4148.2000     Document Type: Article

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