Impaired hippocampus-dependent and -independent learning in IL-6 deficient mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 192-196

  Baier, Paul Christian ^a   May, Ulrike ^a   Scheller, Jürgen ^a   Rose John, Stefan ^a   Schiffelholz, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Interleukin 6 knock out; Mouse; Novel object recognition; Spatial memory; Stress

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRESS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SWIMMING;

EID: 62649131576     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.01.013     Document Type: Article

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