Effect of chronic inhibition of calpains in the hippocampus on spatial discrimination learning and protein kinase C

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 439-448

  Touyarot, Katia ^a   Poussard, Sylvie ^b   Cortes Torrea, Cédric ^c   Cottin, Patrick ^b   Micheau, Jacques ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^b Laboratoire de Biochimie et Technologie des Aliments   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Calpains; Hippocampus; Memory processes; PKC; Proteolysis; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; CALPASTATIN; PROTEIN KINASE C;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC MINIPUMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CALPAIN; CELL MEMBRANE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; CYTOSOL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DRUG IMPLANTS; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASE C; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037112311     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00188-2     Document Type: Article

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