Developmental differences in place-learning performance between C57BL/6 and DBA/2 mice parallel the ontogeny of hippocampal protein kinase C

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1415-1425

  Paylor, Richard ^a,b   Baskall Baldini, Linda ^a   Yuva, Lisa ^a   Wehner, Jeanne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHORBOL ESTER; PROTEIN KINASE C; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROTEIN KINASE C; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030461567     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.6.1415     Document Type: Article

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