Reversal of learning deficits in a Tsc2+/- mouse model of tuberous sclerosis

Nature Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 843-848

  Ehninger, Dan ^a   Han, Sangyeul ^b   Shilyansky, Carrie ^a   Zhou, Yu ^a   Li, Weidong ^a   Kwiatkowski, David J ^c   Ramesh, Vijaya ^b   Silva, Alcino J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAPAMYCIN; TUBERIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 49149088555     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1788     Document Type: Article

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