Effect of colchicine-induced cell loss in the dentate gyrus and Ammon's horn on the olfactory control of feeding in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 712, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 213-220

  Heale, V R ^a   Petersen, K ^a   Vanderwolf, C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

colchicine; dentate gyrus; hippocampus; neocortex; olfaction

Indexed keywords

2 PROPYLTHIETANE; BUTYRIC ACID; COLCHICINE; HEXANOIC ACID; QUININE; SUCROSE; TOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMELLING;

EID: 0029919764     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)01416-0     Document Type: Article

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