Cognitive and Sensorimotor Gating Impairments in Transgenic Mice Overexpressing the Schizophrenia Susceptibility Gene Tcf4 in the Brain

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-40

  Brzózka, Magdalena M ^a   Radyushkin, Konstantin ^a   Wichert, Sven P ^a   Ehrenreich, Hannelore ^a   Rossner, Moritz J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

bHLH transcription factors; fear conditioning; prepulse inhibition; schizophrenia; Tcf4

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ID 1; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ID 2; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ID 3; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ID 4; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NDRF; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NEURO D; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NEX; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TCF 12; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TCF 4; BRAIN PROTEIN; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PER2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NDRG2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NEUROD1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TCF4 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HOT PLATE TEST; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STARTLE REFLEX; TCF 4 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROSHOCK; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; METABOLISM; NEUROLOGIC GAIT DISORDER; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77953613107     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.03.015     Document Type: Article

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