Similar target, different effects: Late-onset ataxia and spatial learning in prion protein-deficient mouse lines

Neurogenetics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 173-184

  Valenti, Paolo ^a   Cozzio, Antonio ^b   Nishida, Noriyuki ^c   Wolfer, David P ^a   Sakaguchi, Suehiro ^d   Lipp, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ataxia; Behavioral phenotyping; Memory and learning; Prion protein; Targeted deletion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MOUSE STRAIN; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRION;

AGE OF ONSET; ANIMAL; ATAXIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHENOTYPE; PRIONS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0035490302     PISSN: 13646745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100480100117     Document Type: Article

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