Genetic enhancement of learning and memory in mice

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6748, 1999, Pages 63-69

  Tang, Ya Ping ^a   Shimizu, Eiji ^a   Dube, Gilles R ^b   Rampon, Claire ^a   Kerchner, Geoffrey A ^c   Zhuo, Min ^c   Liu, Guosong ^b   Tsien, Joe Z ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CELLS, CULTURED; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEAR; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROSENCEPHALON; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0033517366     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/43432     Document Type: Article

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