Behavioral flexibility in a mouse model of developmental cerebellar Purkinje cell loss

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 220-228

  Dickson, Price E ^a   Rogers, Tiffany D ^a   Mar, Nobel Del ^b   Martin, Loren A ^c   Heck, Detlef ^b   Blaha, Charles D ^a   Goldowitz, Daniel ^d   Mittleman, Guy ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autism; Behavioral flexibility; Cerebellum; Chimera; Executive function; Lurcher; PFC; Reversal learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PURKINJE CELL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 77955562092     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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