Hippocampal mossy fibers and swimming navigation learning in two vole species occupying different habitats

Hippocampus

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 17-30

  Pleskacheva, Marina G ^a   Wolfer, David P ^b   Kupriyanova, Inna F ^c   Nikolenko, Dmitry L ^a   Scheffrahn, Helga ^b   Dell'Omo, Giacomo ^b,d   Lipp, Hans Peter ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artifactual memory deficits; Clethrionomys glareolus; Ecology; Microtus oeconomus; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VELOCITY; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; ESCAPE REACTION; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWIMMING; TOUCH;

EID: 0033975617     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(2000)10:1<17::AID-HIPO2>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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