The use of alert behaving mice in the study of learning and memory processes

Neurotoxicity Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 225-232

  Rodríguez Moreno, Antonio ^a   Del Toro, Eduardo Domínguez ^a   Porras García, Elena ^a   Delgado García, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Classical conditioning; Mice; Orbicularis oculi muscle; Trace conditioning

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; APLP2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; APLP2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NERVE PROTEIN; NICOTINIC AGENT;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYELID; GENETICS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFLEX; REINFORCEMENT; TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

AGE FACTORS; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; EYELIDS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; REFLEX; TIME FACTORS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 16644364800     PISSN: 10298428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03033224     Document Type: Article

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