Bcl-2 transgenic mice with increased number of neurons have a greater learning capacity

Brain Research

Volumn 832, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 188-194

  Coleman, Grahame J ^a   Bernard, C C A ^b   Bernard, Ora ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bcl 2; Behavior; Learning; Maze; Neuron; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 2;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, BCL-2; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0033583923     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01498-5     Document Type: Article

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