Nogo-A downregulation impairs place avoidance in the Carousel maze but not spatial memory in the Morris water maze

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 107, Issue , 2014, Pages 42-49

  Petrasek, Tomas ^a,b   Prokopova, Iva ^a   Bahnik, Stepan ^a   Schonig, Kai ^c   Berger, Stefan ^c   Vales, Karel ^a   Tews, Bjorn ^d,e   Schwab, Martin E ^d   Bartsch, Dusan ^c   Stuchlik, Ales ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive coordination; Nogo A; Spatial mazes; Spatial navigation; Transgenic rat model

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN NOGO A;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

COGNITIVE COORDINATION; NOGO-A; SPATIAL MAZES; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; TRANSGENIC RAT MODEL;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MYELIN PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, TRANSGENIC; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84888594935     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.10.015     Document Type: Article

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