Learning and memory impairment in Eph receptor A6 knockout mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 438, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 205-209

  Savelieva, Katerina V ^a   Rajan, Indrani ^a   Baker, Kevin B ^a   Vogel, Peter ^a   Jarman, Wendy ^a   Allen, Margaret ^a   Lanthorn, Thomas H ^a  

^a LEXICON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Eph receptor; Ephrin; Hippocampus; Knockout; Learning and memory

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN RECEPTOR A6; LIGAND;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING; GENE MUTATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; TARGET VARIABLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WILD TYPE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; EPHRINS; FEAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RECEPTOR, EPHA6;

EID: 43849083403     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.04.013     Document Type: Article

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