Associative and spatial learning and memory deficits in transgenic mice overexpressing the RNA-binding protein HuD

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 635-643

  Bolognani, Federico ^a   Qiu, Shenfeng ^b   Tanner, Daniel C ^a   Paik, Jiae ^b   Perrone Bizzozero, Nora I ^a   Weeber, Edwin J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear conditioning; HuD; Learning and memory; Morris water maze; Post transcriptional regulation; RNA binding proteins

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NEUROMODULIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN HUD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL MEMORY; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HU PARANEOPLASTIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ANTIGENS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33947576166     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

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