Working memory deficits in neuronal nitric oxide synthase knockout mice: Potential impairments in prefrontal cortex mediated cognitive function

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 408, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 707-712

  Zoubovsky, Sandra P ^a   Pogorelov, Vladimir M ^a   Taniguchi, Yu ^a   Kim, Sun Hong ^a   Yoon, Peter ^a   Nwulia, Evaristus ^b   Sawa, Akira ^a   Pletnikov, Mikhail V ^a   Kamiya, Atsushi ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; DISC1; NNOS; Prefrontal cortex; Schizophrenia; Working memory

Indexed keywords

DISRUPTED IN SCHIZOPHRENIA 1 PROTEIN; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC RISK; HYPERACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NDEL1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; COGNITION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

MUS;

EID: 79956223279     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.04.097     Document Type: Article

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