Stimulus complexity dependent memory impairment and changes in motor performance after deletion of the neuronal gap junction protein connexin36 in mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 177-185

  Frisch, C ^a,b   Souza Silva, M A De ^a   Sohl G ^b   Guldenagel M ^b   Willecke, K ^b   Huston, J P ^a   Dere, E ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Connexin36; Learning; Locomotor activity; Memory; Motor coordination; Neurochemistry

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 36; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENE DELETION; HABITUATION; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONNEXINS; EMOTIONS; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST;

EID: 11144249412     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.06.023     Document Type: Article

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