Behavioral characterization of mice lacking the ubiquitin ligase UBR1 of the N-end rule pathway

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 223-229

  Balogh, S A ^a,b   McDowell, C S ^a   Denenberg, V H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Learning; Memory; Non spatial; Proteolysis; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ESCAPE REACTION; GENOTYPE; LIGASES; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; POSTURE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037498625     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1601-183X.2002.10404.x     Document Type: Article

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