Frontal cortex and hippocampus neurotransmitter receptor complex level parallels spatial memory performance in the radial arm maze

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 289, Issue , 2015, Pages 157-168

  Shanmugasundaram, Bharanidharan ^a   Sase, Ajinkya ^a   Miklosi, András G ^a   Sialana, Fernando J ^a,b   Subramaniyan, Saraswathi ^a   Aher, Yogesh D ^a   Gröger, Marion ^a   Höger, Harald ^a   Bennett, Keiryn L ^b   Lubec, Gert ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Blue native PAGE; D1 GluN1 complex; Neurotransmitter receptor complex; Radial arm maze; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; AMPA RECEPTOR; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR; PROTEIN GLUA1; PROTEIN GLUA2; PROTEIN GLUN1; PROTEIN GLUN2A; PROTEIN GLUN2B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETAL-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARC GENE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIAL ARM MAZE TEST; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; FRONTAL LOBE; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FRONTAL LOBE; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84929158191     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.04.043     Document Type: Article

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