Hippocampal CA1-region-restricted knockout of NMDAR1 gene disrupts synaptic plasticity, place fields, and spatial learning

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 61, Issue , 1996, Pages 225-238

  Tonegawa, S ^a,b   Tsien, J Z ^a,b   Mchugh, T J ^a,b   Huerta, P ^a,b   Blum, K I ^b   Wilson, M A ^b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; GENE DISRUPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FIRING RATE; GENE INACTIVATION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; INTERNEURON; LATENT PERIOD; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PLACE CELL; PLACE FIELD; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYNAPTIC EFFICACY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030439806     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1996.061.01.025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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