Impaired discrimination learning in mice lacking the NMDA receptor NR2A subunit

Learning and Memory

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 50-54

  Brigman, Jonathan L ^a   Feyder, Michael ^a   Saksida, Lisa M ^b,c   Bussey, Timothy J ^b,c   Mishina, Masayoshi ^d   Holmes, Andrew ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2A; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; N METHYL D ASPARTATE RECEPTOR SUBTYPE 2A; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N-METHYL D-ASPARTATE RECEPTOR SUBTYPE 2A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MENTAL TASK; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERSEVERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; ANIMAL; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; VISION;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; REVERSAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 39349087613     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.777308     Document Type: Article

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