behavior/neurological
• in a probe trial test of the Morris water maze task in which a platform is removed after the training schedule, homozygotes spend significantly more time than wild-type in the quadrant where the platform had been and tend to cross the platform site more frequently, indicating enhanced spatial learning
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nervous system
• exhibit facilitated CA1 long-term potentiation (LTP) induced by short tetanus (100 Hz, 100 ms)
• LTP is not blocked by the NMDA receptor antagonist D-AP5 as in wild-type but is partially dependent on L-type voltage-dependent calcium channels (VDCCs) and metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs)
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• long term depression (LTD) is not induced in homozygotes
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