Behaviors of rats with insidious, multifocal brain damage induced by seizures following single peripheral injections of lithium and pilocarpine

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1993, Pages 849-866

  Persinger, Michael A ^a   Bureau, Yves R J ^a   Kostakos, Maria ^a   Peredery, Oksana ^a   Falter, Hermann ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Brain damage; Conditioned taste aversion (CTA); Limbic seizure; Lithium; Memory; Radial arm maze (RAM)

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASTE ACUITY;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CALCIUM; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DRUG SYNERGISM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LITHIUM; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NECROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; ORIENTATION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SEIZURES; TASTE;

EID: 0027222869     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(93)90261-D     Document Type: Article

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