Lack of the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 7 selectively impairs short-term working memory but not long-term memory

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 473-481

  Hölscher, Christian ^a   Schmid, Susanne ^a   Pilz, Peter K D ^a   Sansig, Gilles ^b   Van Der Putten, Herman ^b   Plappert, Claudia F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Knock out; Learning; mGluR; Mice; Spatial; Startle; Synaptic plasticity; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 7;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HABITUATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STARTLE REFLEX; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WILD TYPE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, KAINIC ACID; STARTLE REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4143099070     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.03.015     Document Type: Article

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