Selective discrimination learning impairments in mice expressing the human Huntington's disease mutation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 10428-10437

  Lione, Lisa A ^a,c   Carter, Rebecca J ^d   Hunt, Mark J ^d   Bates, Gillian P ^b   Morton, A Jennifer ^d   Dunnett, Stephen B ^d  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Behavior; Cognition; Huntington's disease; Morris water maze; T maze; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GENE MUTATION; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LEARNING DISORDER; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0033500593     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-23-10428.1999     Document Type: Article

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