Mice Lacking Ras-GRF1 Show Contextual Fear Conditioning but not Spatial Memory Impairments: Convergent Evidence from Two Independently Generated Mouse Mutant Lines.

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Published in Front Behav Neurosci on December 06, 2011

Authors

Raffaele d'Isa1, Steven J Clapcote, Vootele Voikar, David P Wolfer, Karl Peter Giese, Riccardo Brambilla, Stefania Fasano

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Neurology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute and University Milano, Italy.

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