Unaltered radial maze performance and brain acetylcholine of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase knockout mouse

Neuroscience

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 561-570

  Dere, E ^a   Frisch, C ^a   De Souza Silva, M A ^a   Godecke A ^a   Schrader, J ^a   Huston, J P ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Behavioral phenotyping; Hypertension; Mouse mutants; Spatial learning; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE INACTIVATION; HYPERTENSION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; WORKING MEMORY;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHOLINE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); HYPERTENSION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035965674     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(01)00382-7     Document Type: Article

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