Mildly impaired water maze performance in male Fmr1 knockout mice

Neuroscience

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 367-376

  D'Hooge, R ^b   Nagels, G ^b   Franck, F ^b   Bakker, C E ^a   Reyniers, E ^b   Storm, K ^b   Kooy, R F ^b   Oostra, B A ^a   Willems, P J ^b   De Deyn, P P ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Fragile X syndrome; Mental retardation; Morris water maze; Spatial learning; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MAZE TEST; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CUES; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; REVERSAL LEARNING; SPACE PERCEPTION; SWIMMING;

EID: 0031014044     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00224-2     Document Type: Article

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