Loss of forebrain cholinergic neurons and impairment in spatial learning and memory in LHX7-deficient mice

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2923-2938

  Fragkouli, Apostolia ^a,b   Hearn, Catherine ^a   Errington, Mick ^a   Cooke, Sam ^a   Grigoriou, Maria ^a,c   Bliss, Tim ^a   Stylianopoulou, Fotini ^b   Pachnis, Vassilis ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Forebrain cholinergic neurons; Learning and memory; Lhx7; LIM homeodomain proteins; Neuronal specification

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXON; FOREBRAIN; GENE LOCUS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; INTERNEURON; LEARNING DISORDER; LHX7 GENE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERNEURONS; LAC OPERON; LEARNING DISORDERS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; PROSENCEPHALON;

EID: 21444432191     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04141.x     Document Type: Article

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