Severe learning deficits in apolipoprotein E-knockout mice in a water maze task

Brain Research

Volumn 752, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 189-196

  Oitzl, Melly S ^a   Mulder, Monique ^a,b   Lucassen, Paul J ^a   Havekes, Louis M ^b   Grootendorst, Jeannette ^a   De Kloet, E Ron ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alzheimer' s disease; apolipoprotein E (apoE); behavior; hippocampus; immunocytochemistry; memory; mice

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SWIMMING;

EID: 0030897921     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01448-5     Document Type: Article

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