Deficits in trace fear memory in a mouse model of the schizophrenia risk gene TCF4

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 348-356

  Brzózka, Magdalena M ^a,b   Rossner, Moritz J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal model; Anticipation; BHLH transcription factor; Fos expression; Memory; Schizophrenia; Tcf4; Trace fear conditioning

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPHENOTYPE; FEAR; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; MENTAL TASK; MOUSE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSORY GATING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TCF4 GENE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GYRUS CINGULI; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84867746531     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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