Impaired working memory duration but normal learning abilities found in mice that are conditionally deficient in the close homolog of L1

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 50, 2008, Pages 13505-13510

  Kolata, Stefan ^a   Wu, Junfang ^b   Light, Kenneth ^a   Schachner, Melitta ^a,c   Matzel, Louis D ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Attention; CHL1; Cognition; Knock out mice; Learning; Memory; Selective attention; Synaptic transmission; Working memory

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CLOSE HOMOLOG OF L 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 58149381459     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2127-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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