Mineralocorticoid receptors guide spatial and stimulus-response learning in mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Arp, J Marit ^a   Ter Horst, Judith P ^a   Kanatsou, Sofia ^a   Fernández, Guillén ^c   Joëls, Marian ^b   Krugers, Harm J ^a   Oitzl, Melly S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR DEFICIENCY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID;

EID: 84907027053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086236     Document Type: Article

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