Genetic approaches to molecular and cellular cognition: A focus on LTP and learning and memory

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2002, Pages 687-720

  Matynia, Anna ^a   Kushner, Steven A ^a   Silva, Alcino J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene targeting; Hippocampus; Plasticity; Synapse; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; DOXYCYCLINE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RAF PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN;

COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE MODEL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; LEARNING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY;

HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS;

EID: 0036948733     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.36.062802.091007     Document Type: Review

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