A similar impairment in CA3 mossy fibre LTP in the R6/2 mouse model of Huntington's disease and in the complexin II knockout mouse

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1701-1712

  Gibson, Helen E ^a   Reim, Kerstin ^b   Brose, Nils ^b   Morton, A Jennifer ^a   Jones, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associational commissural LTP; Hippocampus; Spatial learning; Synaptic vesicle release

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXIN II; FORSKOLIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; NERVE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOSSY FIBER; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CYCLOPROPANES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FORSKOLIN; GLYCINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 26944493771     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04349.x     Document Type: Article

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