Selective effects of nerve growth factor on spatial recent memory as assessed by a delayed nonmatching-to-position task in the water maze

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3541-3548

  Markowska, Alicja L ^a   Price, Donald ^b   Koliatsos, Vassilis E ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; delayed nonmatching to position; Fischer 344; neurotrophins; NGF; recent memory; water maze; working memory

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0029876848     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-10-03541.1996     Document Type: Article

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