Enhanced learning and memory and altered GABAergic synaptic transmission in mice lacking the α5 subunit of the GABAA receptor

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2002, Pages 5572-5580

  Collinson, Neil ^a   Kuenzi, Frederick M ^a   Jarolimek, Wolfgang ^a   Maubach, Karen A ^a   Cothliff, Rosa ^a   Sur, Cyrille ^b   Smith, Alison ^a   Otu, Franklin M ^a   Howell, Owain ^a   Atack, John R ^a   McKernan, Ruth M ^a   Seabrook, Guy R ^a   Dawson, Gerry R ^a   Whiting, Paul J ^a   Rosahl, Thomas W ^a  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Active avoidance; Benzodiazepine; Elevated plus maze; GABAA receptor; Hippocampus; Inhibitory postsynaptic current; Learning and memory; Long term potentiation; Mouse; Paired pulse facilitation; Synaptic transmission; Water maze

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE TARGETING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WILD TYPE;

EID: 0036663009     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-13-05572.2002     Document Type: Article

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