Visuo-spatial learning and memory deficits on the Barnes maze in the 16-month-old APPswe/PS1dE9 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 120-127

  O'Leary, Timothy P ^a   Brown, Richard E ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; APPswe PS1dE9; Barnes maze; Learning; Memory; Mice; Visuo spatial

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VISUAL MEMORY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRESENILIN-1; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REVERSAL LEARNING; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 64849099564     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.01.039     Document Type: Article

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