Age-dependent impairment of eyeblink conditioning in prion protein-deficient mice.

Mice lacking the prion protein (PrP(C)) gene (Prnp), Ngsk Prnp (0/0) mice, show late-onset cerebellar Purkinje cell (PC) degeneration because of ectopic overexpression of PrP(C)-like protein (PrPLP/Dpl). Because PrP(C) is highly expressed in cerebellar neurons (including PCs and granule cells), it m...

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Main Authors: Yasushi Kishimoto, Moritoshi Hirono, Ryuichiro Atarashi, Suehiro Sakaguchi, Tohru Yoshioka, Shigeru Katamine, Yutaka Kirino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3622692?pdf=render