Mild cognitive deficits associated to neocortical microgyria in mice with genetic deletion of cellular prion protein

Brain Research

Volumn 1241, Issue , 2008, Pages 148-156

  Xikota, João C ^a,b   Rial, Daniel ^b   Ruthes, Daniel ^c   Pereira, Rafael ^c   Figueiredo, Cláudia P ^b   Prediger, Rui D S ^b   Walz, Roger ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^c HOSPITAL GOVERNADOR CELSO RAMOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cellular prion protein (PrPC); Freezing lesion; Learning and memory; Malformations of cortical development; Polymicrogyria

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MICROGYRIA; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; COLD TEMPERATURE; DENERVATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEOCORTEX; NEUROGENESIS; PRPC PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 55749094851     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.08.097     Document Type: Article

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