Serotonin transporter knockout rats show improved strategy set-shifting and reduced latent inhibition

Learning and Memory

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 190-193

  Nonkes, Lourens J P ^a   Van De Vondervoort, Ilse I G M ^a   De Leeuw, Mark J C ^a   Wijlaars, Linda P ^a   Maes, Joseph H R ^a   Homberg, Judith R ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INACTIVATION; LATENT INHIBITION; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 84861137247     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.025908.112     Document Type: Article

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