Learning Spatial Orientation Tasks in the Radial-maze and Structural Variation in the Hippocampus in Inbred Mice

Overview

Journal Behav Brain Funct

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialties Neurology
Psychology
Social Sciences

Date 2005 May 27

PMID 15916698

Citations 27

Authors

Wim E Crusio

Herbert Schwegler

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Abstract

In the present paper we review a series of experiments showing that heritable variations in the size of the hippocampal intra- and infrapyramidal mossy fiber (IIPMF) terminal fields correlate with performance in spatial, but not non-spatial radial-maze tasks. Experimental manipulation of the size of this projection by means of early postnatal hyperthyroidism produces the effects predicted from the correlations obtained with inbred mouse strains. Although the physiological mechanisms behind these correlations are unknown as yet, several lines of evidence indicate that these correlations are causal.

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