Essential role for TrkB receptors in hippocampus-mediated learning

Neuron

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 401-414

  Minichiello, Liliana ^a   Korte, Martin ^b   Wolfer, David ^c   Kühn, Ralf ^d,h   Unsicker, Klaus ^e   Cestari, Vincenzo ^f   Rossi Arnaud, Clelia ^g   Lipp, Hans Peter ^c   Bonhoeffer, Tobias ^b   Klein, Rüdiger ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f CNR   (Italy)

^g SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^h Artemis Pharmaceuticals GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033213270     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80853-3     Document Type: Article

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