Spatial learning deficits in old rats: A model for memory decline in the aged

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 9, Issue C, 1988, Pages 549-556

  Gallagher, Michela ^a   Pelleymounter, Mary Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Animal models; High affinity choline uptake; Hippocampus; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE;

AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDER; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; REVIEW;

AGING; ANIMAL; LEARNING DISORDERS; MEMORY DISORDERS; RATS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0024160442     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(88)80112-X     Document Type: Review

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