Learning strategy selection in the water maze and hippocampal CREB phosphorylation differ in two inbred strains of mice

Learning and Memory

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 183-188

  Sung, Jin Young ^a   Goo, June Seo ^a   Lee, Dong Eun ^b   Jin, Da Qing ^a   Bizon, Jennifer L ^c   Gallagher, Michela ^d   Han, Jung Soo ^a,e  

^a Inje University   (South Korea)

^b Hanwha Corporation   (South Korea)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Konkuk University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DBA 2 MOUSE; DNA MODIFICATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INBRED STRAIN; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; PHOSPHORYLATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWIMMING;

EID: 42149187040     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.783108     Document Type: Article

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