Investigation of ethanol-induced impairment of spatial memory in γ2 heterozygous knockout mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 455, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 84-87

  Berry, Raymond B ^a   Chandra, Dev ^b   Diaz Granados, Jaime L ^c   Homanics, Gregg E ^b   Matthews, Douglas B ^c,d  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

2 subunit; Ethanol; GABAA receptor knockout; Morris water maze; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALCOHOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; ETHANOL; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 63449129969     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.03.046     Document Type: Article

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