Spatial learning and hippocampal long-term potentiation are not impaired in mdx mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 211, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 207-210

  Sesay, A K ^a   Errington, M L ^a   Levita, L ^a   Bliss, T V P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Area CA1; Dentate gyrus; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Long term potentiation; Morris water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DENTATE GYRUS; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030604662     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12747-6     Document Type: Article

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