Chat-ChR2-EYFP mice have enhanced motor endurance but show deficits in attention and several additional cognitive domains

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 10427-10438

  Kolisnyk, Benjamin ^a   Guzman, Monica S ^a,b   Raulic, Sanda ^a   Fan, Jue ^a   Magalhães, Ana C ^a,b   Feng, Guoping ^c   Gros, Robert ^a,b   Prado, Vania F ^a,b   Prado, Marco A M ^a,b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; CHAT CHR2 EYFP MICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ENDURANCE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTAROD TEST; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TREADMILL; WESTERN BLOTTING; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COGNITION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HAND STRENGTH; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; MAZE LEARNING; METABOLISM; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTURAL BALANCE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RHODOPSIN; SWIMMING; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 84879135819     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0395-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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