Effects of reversible inactivations of the medial septal area on reference and working memory versions of the Morris water maze

Brain Research

Volumn 709, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 131-140

  Rashidy Pour, A ^a,b   Motamedi, F ^a   Motahed Larijani, Z ^a,b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Lidocaine; Medial septal area; Reference memory; Reversible inactivation; Tetrodotoxin; Working memory

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030028491     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)01323-7     Document Type: Article

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