Haploinsufficiency of Dyrk1A in mice leads to specific alterations in the development and regulation of motor activity

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 815-821

  Fotaki, V ^a,b   Martinez De Lagran M ^a   Estivill, X ^a   Arbones M ^a   Dierssen, M ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN DYRK1A; PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BRAIN SIZE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE TARGETING; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HAND STRENGTH; HAPLOTYPES; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; WALKING;

EID: 3242816217     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.4.815     Document Type: Article

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