5-HTT Deficiency Affects Neuroplasticity and Increases Stress Sensitivity Resulting in Altered Spatial Learning Performance in the Morris Water Maze but Not in the Barnes Maze

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Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Karabeg, Margherita M ^a   Grauthoff, Sandra ^b   Kollert, Sina Y ^a   Weidner, Magdalena ^a   Heiming, Rebecca S ^b   Jansen, Friederike ^b   Popp, Sandy ^a   Kaiser, Sylvia ^b   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^a   Sachser, Norbert ^b   Schmitt, Angelika G ^a   Lewejohann, Lars ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROGENIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; SLC6A4 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BARNES MAZE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DENTATE GYRUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MORRIS WATER MAZE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CORTICOSTERONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84886039203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078238     Document Type: Article

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