Enhanced spatial memory and hippocampal long-term potentiation in p75 neurotrophin receptor knockout mice

Hippocampus

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 145-152

  Barrett, Graham L ^a   Reid, Christopher A ^a   Tsafoulis, Christina ^a   Zhu, Wenmei ^a   Williams, David A ^a   Paolini, Antonio G ^b   Trieu, Jennifer ^a   Murphy, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basal forebrain; Cholinergic neuron; Nerve growth factor; Septo hippocampal system; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR P75;

ALLELE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOREBRAIN; FREEZING; GENE CONTROL; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRESS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SPACE PERCEPTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNAPSES;

EID: 75149127212     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20598     Document Type: Article

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