Cognitive abnormalities and hippocampal alterations in monoamine oxidase A and B knockout mice

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 31, 2013, Pages 12816-12821

  Singh, Chanpreet ^a,d   Bortolato, Marco ^b   Bali, Namrata ^c,d   Godar, Sean C ^c   Scott, Anna L ^c   Chen, Kevin ^c   Thompson, Richard F ^a   Shih, Jean C ^a,c  

^a Neuroscience Program   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult neurogenesis; Autism spectrum disorder; Cognition

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME A; AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME B; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ADULT NEUROGENESIS; AUTISM-SPECTRUM DISORDER; COGNITION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; COGNITION DISORDERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 84881112822     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308037110     Document Type: Article

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