Mice with deficient BK channel function show impaired prepulse inhibition and spatial learning, but normal working and spatial reference memory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Typlt, Marei ^a   Mirkowski, Magdalena ^a   Azzopardi, Erin ^a   Ruettiger, Lukas ^b   Ruth, Peter ^c   Schmid, Susanne ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; GAIT DISORDER; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOCOMOTION; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SENSORY GATING; SLO1 GENE; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREMOR; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GAIT; HEARING; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY;

EID: 84896690701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081270     Document Type: Article

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