NMDA-complexes linked to spatial memory performance in the Barnes maze in CD1 mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 142-148

  Ghafari, Maryam ^a   Patil, Sudarshan S ^a   Höger, Harald ^a   Pollak, Arnold ^a   Lubec, Gert ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

NMDA receptor; Receptor complexes; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

DIMER; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2A; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79953099424     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.02.042     Document Type: Article

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