Causal evidence for the involvement of the neural cell adhesion molecule, NCAM, in chronic stress-induced cognitive impairments

Hippocampus

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-71

  Bisaz, Reto ^a   Schachner, Melitta ^b,c,d   Sandi, Carmen ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic stress; Memory; Mice; NCAM; PSA NCAM; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; CORTICOSTERONE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78650332655     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20723     Document Type: Article

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