Phenotypic characterization of cognition and social behavior in mice with heterozygous versus homozygous deletion of catechol-O-methyltransferase

Neuroscience

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1021-1029

  Babovic, D ^a   O'Tuathaigh, C M ^a   O'Connor, A M ^a   O'Sullivan, G J ^a   Tighe, O ^a   Croke, D T ^a   Karayiorgou, M ^b   Gogos, J A ^b   Cotter, D ^c   Waddington, J L ^a  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

COMT knockout mice; recognition memory; social behavior; spatial learning; spatial working memory

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; HABITUATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; LEARNING TEST; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; COGNITION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHENOTYPE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 50249187744     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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