Loss of EphA4 impairs short-term spatial recognition memory performance and locomotor habituation

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1020-1031

  Willi, R ^a,b,d   Winter, C ^c   Wieske, F ^c   Kempf, A ^a,b   Yee, B K ^b,e   Schwab, M E ^a,b   Singer, P ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^d F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

^e LEGACY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cognition; EphA4; Hippocampus; Learning; Memory; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN RECEPTOR A4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION;

MUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECEPTOR, EPHA4; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84876993655     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2012.00842.x     Document Type: Article

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