Early cognitive dysfunction in the HD 51 CAG transgenic rat model of Huntington's disease

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 479-487

  Fink, Kyle D ^a   Rossignol, Julien ^a,b   Crane, Andrew T ^a   Davis, Kendra K ^a   Bavar, Angela M ^a   Dekorver, Nicholas W ^a   Lowrance, Steven A ^a   Reilly, Mark P ^a   Sandstrom, Michael I ^a   von Hörsten, Stephan ^c   Lescaudron, Laurent ^d   Dunbar, Gary L ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Children's Hospital of Michigan   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d Universite de Nantes   (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive dysfunction; HD 51 CAG; Huntington's disease; Neurodegenerative disorder; Operant conditioning; Transgenic rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN TISSUE; CAG REPEAT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTIVATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL OPERANT REVERSAL TEST; TRANSGENIC RAT; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CELL DEATH; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

HTT PROTEIN, HUMAN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 84871353946     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028028     Document Type: Article

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