Social, communication, and cortical structural impairments in epac2-deficient mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 34, 2012, Pages 11864-11878

  Srivastava, Deepak P ^a,e   Jones, Kelly A ^a   Woolfrey, Kevin M ^a   Burgdorf, Jeffrey ^c   Russell, Theron A ^a   Kalmbach, Abigail ^a   Lee, Hyerin ^a   Yang, Connie ^a   Bradberry, Mazdak M ^a   Wokosin, David ^a   Moska, Joseph R ^c   Casanova, Manuel F ^d   Waters, Jack ^a   Penzes, Peter ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; EPAC GENE; FEMALE; GAIT; GENE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VOCALIZATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; DENDRITIC SPINES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84865221702     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1349-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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