Motor and cognitive deficits in the heterozygous leaner mouse, a Cav2.1 voltage-gated Ca2+ channel mutant

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1733-1743

  Alonso, Isabel ^a,b   Marques, Joana M ^a   Sousa, Nuno ^c   Sequeiros, Jorge ^a,b   Olsson, I Anna S ^a   Silveira, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Calcium currents; Learning; Memory; Natural mutant; Rotarod test; Water maze test

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL 2.1;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CACNA1A GENE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL;

AGING; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, N-TYPE; COGNITION DISORDERS; LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MUTATION;

EID: 51449092440     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2007.04.005     Document Type: Article

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