Impaired learning and memory and altered hippocampal neurodevelopment resulting from interleukin-2 gene deletion

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 441-446

  Petitto, John M ^a   McNamara, Robert K ^b   Gendreau, Paul L ^c   Huang, Zhi ^a   Jackson, Amy Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Behavior; Cytokines; Immunodeficiency; Knockout

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LEARNING DISORDER; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; FEAR; GENE DELETION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERLEUKIN-2; LEARNING; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, SCID; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SPACE PERCEPTION; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0033562703     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19990515)56:4<441::AID-JNR11>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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