Cognitive deficits in a genetic mouse model of the most common biochemical cause of human mental retardation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 6175-6182

  Zagreda, Leze ^a   Goodman, Jason ^a   Druin, Donald P ^a   McDonald, David ^b   Diamond, Adele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Latent learning; Learning set; Memory; Mental retardation; Mice; Odor discrimination; Phenylketonuria; PKU; Reversal learning

Indexed keywords

NUTMEG OIL; PHENYLALANINE 4 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CINNAMON; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PHENYLKETONURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0033565404     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-14-06175.1999     Document Type: Article

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