Muscle weakness, hyperactivity, and impairment in fear conditioning in tau-deficient mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 279, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 129-132

  Ikegami, Shiro ^a   Harada, Akihiro ^b   Hirokawa, Nobutaka ^b  

^a MITSUBISHI KASEI INST OF LIFE SCI   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fear conditioning; FTDP 17; Gene targeting; Hyperactivity; Muscle weakness; Tau

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HYPERACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; HUMANS; HYPERKINESIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0033969771     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00964-7     Document Type: Article

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