Conditional Ablation of the Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule Reduces Precision of Spatial Learning, Long-Term Potentiation, and Depression in the CA1 Subfield of Mouse Hippocampus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1565-1577

  Bukalo, Olena ^a   Fentrop, Nikolas ^a   Lee, Alan Y W ^a,c   Salmen, Benedikt ^a   Law, Janice W S ^a   Wotjak, Carsten T ^a,b   Schweizer, Michaela ^a   Dityatev, Alexander ^a   Schachner, Melitta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

CA1; Hippocampus; Long term depression; Long term potentiation; NCAM; Water maze

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CRE RECOMBINASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN) II;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SLICE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOSSY FIBER; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE TARGETING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDERS; LONG-TERM DEPRESSION (PHYSIOLOGY); LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

EID: 1242319288     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3298-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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