Chronic inhibition of glutamine synthetase is not associated with impairment of learning and memory in mice

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 11-15

  Blin, Marion ^a   Crusio, Wim E ^b   Hévor, Tobias ^a   Cloix, Jean François ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Universite   (France)

Author keywords

Glutamine synthetase; Glycogen; Inbred strains; Methionine sulfoximine; Neuropathologies; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

CONVULSANT AGENT; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLYCOGEN; METHIONINE SULFOXIMINE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHESIS; INBRED STRAIN; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LEARNING DISORDERS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; METHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS;

EID: 0036146912     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(01)00631-1     Document Type: Article

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