A behavioral study of alpha-1b adrenergic receptor knockout mice: Increased reaction to novelty and selectively reduced learning capacities

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 214-229

  Spreng, Matthieu ^a   Cotecchia, Susanna ^b   Schenk, Françoise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b University of Lausanne Departement de Pharmacologie et de Toxicologie   (Switzerland)

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1B ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; SMELLING; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0035708777     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.2000.3965     Document Type: Article

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