A mouse model for the learning and memory deficits associated with neurofibromatosis type I

Nature Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 281-284

  Silva, Alcino J ^a   Frankland, Paul W ^a   Marowitz, Zachary ^a   Friedman, Eugenia ^a   Lazlo, George ^a   Cioffi, Dianna ^a   Jacks, Tyler ^b,c   Bourtchuladze, Roussoudan ^a,d  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; NEUROFIBROMIN; NEUROTROPHIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEARNING DISORDER; MEMORY; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NONHUMAN; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CROSSES, GENETIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; PAIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031018226     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0397-281     Document Type: Article

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