Differential gender-related susceptibility to learning and memory deficits in mice submitted to neonatal freezing microgyria model

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 79, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 177-181

  Rial, Daniel ^b   Xikota, João C ^a,b,c   Miozzo, Alessandro ^b   Cruz, Victor E A ^b   Prediger, Rui D S ^b   Walz, Roger ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^c HOSPITAL GOVERNADOR CELSO RAMOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Development cortical malformation; Freezing lesion; Learning and memory; Mice; Microgyria; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; C57BL 6 MOUSE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FREEZING; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; LEARNING DISORDER; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MECHANICAL PROBE; MEMORY DISORDER; MICROGYRIA; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 64049092994     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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