Memory and the effect of cold shock in the water maze in S100 beta transgenic mice.

doi:10.1016/s0031-9384(96)80038-2

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Memory and the effect of cold shock in the water maze in S100 beta transgenic mice.

Physiology & behavior - 1 Aug 1996

Roder J K, Roder J C, Gerlai R

Abstract excerpt

S100 beta, a calcium binding astrocytic brain protein, influences hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP) and depression (LTD), synaptic processes suggested to play role in spatial (contextual) learning and memory. In the present study we trained S100 beta transgenic and wild-type control mice i...

Topics

Animals
Astrocytes
Cold Temperature
Genotype
Humans
Maze Learning
Memory
Mice
Mice, Transgenic
S100 Proteins
Shock
Temperature

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