Selective cognitive impairment in the YAC128 Huntington's disease mouse

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 88, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 121-129

  Brooks, Simon P ^a   Janghra, Nari ^a   Higgs, Gemma V ^a   Bayram Weston, Zubeyde ^a   Heuer, Andreas ^a   Jones, Lesley ^b   Dunnett, Stephen B ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive; Huntington's disease; Reversal learning; Set shifting; T maze; Transgenic; YAC128

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL LEARNING; DIRECTIONAL LEARNING REVERSAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LEARNING; LIGHT DISCRIMINATION; LIGHT DISCRIMINATION REVERSAL; MALE; MAZE ROTATION SPATIAL LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETURN TO PLACE LEARNING; T MAZE SET SHIFTING TEST; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VALIDITY; YAC128 MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; REVERSAL LEARNING;

EID: 80055025489     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: 18732747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2011.05.010     Document Type: Article

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