Sex-specific hippocampus-dependent cognitive deficits and increased neuronal autophagy in DEspR haploinsufficiency in mice

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 316-329

  Herrera, Victoria L M ^a   Decano, Julius L ^a   Bagamasbad, Pia ^a   Kufahl, Timothy ^a   Steffen, Martin ^b   Ruiz Opazo, Nelson ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning and memory; Morris water maze; Signaling pathway; Social recognition; Social transmission of food preference

Indexed keywords

DUAL ENDOTHELIN 1 VASCULOTROPIN SIGNAL PEPTIDE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN INHIBITOR; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CELL VACUOLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMEOSTASIS; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, ANGIOTENSIN; RECEPTORS, ENDOTHELIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 57349090109     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00044.2008     Document Type: Article

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