Phenotypic characterization of nonsocial behavioral impairment in neurexin 1α knockout rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 74-85

  Esclassan, Frederic ^a   Francois, Jennifer ^a   Phillips, Keith G ^a   Loomis, Sally ^a   Gilmour, Gary ^a  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Cognition; Neurexin1; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

NEUREXIN; NEUREXIN 1ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GLYCOPROTEIN; NEUREXOPHILIN; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HETEROZYGOSITY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; KNOCKOUT RAT; LATENT INHIBITION; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPE; PREPULSE INHIBITION; RAT; SENSORY GATING; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STEREOTYPY; SYNAPSE; T-MAZE TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DISEASE MODEL; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TRANSGENIC RAT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GLYCOPROTEINS; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; PREPULSE INHIBITION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, TRANSGENIC; SENSORY GATING; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84930370590     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/bne0000024     Document Type: Article

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