Progressive imbalance in the interaction between spatial and procedural memory systems in the R6/2 mouse model of Huntington's disease

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 417-428

  Ciamei, Alessandro ^a   Jennifer Morton, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Huntington's disease; Memory systems; Striatum; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROCEDURAL MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; CUES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 69249218896     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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