Impaired learning and LTP in mice expressing the carboxy terminus of the Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6632, 1997, Pages 500-505

  Nalbantoglu, J ^a,b,c   Tirado Santiago, G ^a   Lahsaini A ^d   Poirier, J ^a,b   Goncalves, O ^c   Verge, G ^c   Momoli, F ^a   Welner, S A ^a   Massicotte, G ^d   Julien, J P ^a,e   Shapiro, M L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^e MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SENILE PLAQUE;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LEARNING DISORDERS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 0030978998     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/387500a0     Document Type: Article

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