The initial stage of reversal learning is impaired in mice hemizygous for the vesicular glutamate transporter (VGluT1)

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 477-485

  Granseth, B ^a   Andersson, F K ^a   Lindstrom S H ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Behavioral flexibility; Dorsomedial thalamus; Modulatory synapse; Nucleus accumbens; Prefrontal cortex; Reversal learning; Schizophrenia; Striatum; VGLUT; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; SLC17A7 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GENE DISRUPTION; GENOTYPE; GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE; HEMIZYGOTE; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REWARD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

MUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR RATING SCALE; HEMIZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVERSAL LEARNING; REWARD; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 1;

EID: 84937719963     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gbb.12230     Document Type: Article

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