Hippocampal NMDA receptors are important for behavioural inhibition but not for encoding associative spatial memories

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1633, 2014, Pages

  Taylor, A M ^a   Bus, T ^b   Sprengel, R ^b   Seeburg, P H ^b   Rawlins, J N P ^a   Bannerman, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Long term potentiation; NMDAR; Spatial learning; Synaptic plasticity; Watermaze

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BRAIN; INHIBITION; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROLOGY; RODENT;

MUS;

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUTANT MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NMDAR; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL LEARNING; WATERMAZE;

HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; NMDAR; SPATIAL LEARNING; SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY; WATERMAZE;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84888798017     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0149     Document Type: Article

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