Autism-relevant social abnormalities and cognitive deficits in engrailed-2 knockout mice

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Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Brielmaier, Jennifer ^a   Matteson, Paul G ^b   Silverman, Jill L ^a   Senerth, Julia M ^a   Kelly, Samantha ^b   Genestine, Matthieu ^c   Millonig, James H ^b,c   DiCicco Bloom, Emanuel ^c,d   Crawley, Jacqueline N ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ENGRAILED 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPULSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; GRIP STRENGTH; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMOBILIZATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PHENOTYPE; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIOPATHY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STEREOTYPY; THALAMUS; VOCALIZATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; COGNITION DISORDERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84864027269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040914     Document Type: Article

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