Not all water mazes are created equal: Cyclin D2 knockout mice with constitutively suppressed adult hippocampal neurogenesis do show specific spatial learning deficits

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 357-364

  Garthe, A ^a,b   Huang, Z ^c   Kaczmarek, L ^d   Filipkowski, R K ^e   Kempermann, G ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR REGENERATIVE THERAPIES DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adult neurogenesis; Cognitive flexibility; Dentate gyrus; Morris water maze; Pattern separation; Plasticity; Proliferation; Spatial learning; Stem cells; Strategies

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN D2; CCND2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE INACTIVATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; SPATIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYCLIN D2; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS;

EID: 84897963880     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gbb.12130     Document Type: Article

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