behavior/neurological
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• mutants show normal short-term memory and cued fear conditioning relative to control littermates
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• in foot shock paradigm, upon re-exposure to conditioned context 24 hours after training, mutants show decreased freezing compared to wild-type littermates
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• mice show deficit in spatial learning, with significant impairment in acquisition of Morris water maze hidden platform task; mean escape latency is lower in wild-type mice, whereas transgenic mice reach a plateau on fifth day of training; wild-type mice show a preference for the target quadrant relative to transgenic mice
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• mutants display increased thigmotaxis (swimming in outer 10% of pool) during training compared to littermate controls
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nervous system
• in hippocampal slices treated with the D1 dopaminergic agonist chloro-APB followed by a single 1 second, 100 Hz train stimulus, average potentiation is significantly at 60 minutes relative to wild-type
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