The hippocampal CA2 region is essential for social memory

Nature

Volumn 508, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 88-92

  Hitti, Frederick L ^a   Siegelbaum, Steven A ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute College of Phys and Surg Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VASOPRESSIN V1B RECEPTOR;

ANATOMY; BRAIN; COGNITION; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; LEARNING; LESION; MEMORY; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA2 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SOCIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRATUM LACUNOSUM MOLECULARE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CA2 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; INTEGRASES; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPACE PERCEPTION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84897572238     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13028     Document Type: Article

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