behavior/neurological
• mice fail to increase pokes of their nose into the prefered nose port upon a conditioned auditory cue while wild-type mice given the same training significantly increase the number of nose pokes by 5-fold
• the discrimination ratio between the conditioned and unconditioned noseport fails to be significantly different from chance
• the deficit in discriminating responding to the auditor cue is evident at the beginning of the test (i.e. does not result from differences in extinction rates)
• mice have no defects in normal food responses or overall locomotor activity
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• mutants exhibit a selective impairment in the retention of new learning at delays longer than a few hours, however learning is normal in the standard water maze task
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nervous system
• LTP induced by theta burst stimulation is greatly reduced in adult, but not young, mutants
• LTP induced by a conventional 1 Hz protocol is absent in young (P21-P28) mutants
• LTP induced by pairing depolarizing current injection with low-frequency stimulation is severely reduced
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