Spatial navigation in complex and radial mazes in APP23 animals and neurotrophin signaling as a biological marker of early impairment

Learning and Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-71

  Hellweg, Rainer ^a   Lohmann, Peter ^a   Huber, Roman ^b   Kühl, Alexander ^a   Riepe, Matthias W ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEUROTROPHIN 3; ORIENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS;

EID: 32144444347     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.2606     Document Type: Article

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