Modest neuropsychological deficits caused by reduced noradrenaline metabolism in mice heterozygous for a mutated tyrosine hydroxylase gene

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2418-2426

  Kobayashi, Kazuto ^a   Noda, Yukihiro ^b   Matsushita, Natsuki ^a   Nishii, Kazuhiro ^c   Sawada, Hirohide ^c   Nagatsu, Toshiharu ^c   Nakahara, Daiichiro ^d   Fukabori, Ryoji ^e   Yasoshima, Yasunobu ^e   Yamamoto, Takashi ^e   Miura, Masami ^f   Kano, Masanobu ^f   Mamiya, Takayoshi ^b   Miyamoto, Yoshiaki ^b   Nabeshima, Toshitaka ^b  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KANAZAWA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Gene targeting; Latent learning; Long term memory; Noradrenaline system; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; NORADRENALIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; FEAR; GENE TARGETING; HETEROZYGOSITY; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASTE AVERSION;

EID: 0034653389     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-06-02418.2000     Document Type: Article

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