Impacts of Forebrain Neuronal Glycine Transporter 1 Disruption in the Senescent Brain: Evidence for Age-Dependent Phenotypes in Pavlovian Learning

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 839-850

  Dubroqua, Sylvain ^a   Singer, Philipp ^a   Boison, Detlev ^b   Feldon, Joram ^a   Möhler, Hanns ^a,c   Yee, Benjamin K ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LEGACY RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognitive enhancement; Glycine; Learning; NMDA receptor; Senescence

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE TRANSPORTER 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B;

AGE; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CELL COUNT; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REINFORCEMENT; SENESCENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GLYCINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; PROSENCEPHALON; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 78650109396     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021556     Document Type: Article

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