Restraint stress reversibly enhances spatial memory performance

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-32

  Luine, Victoria ^a   Martinez, Carlos ^a   Villegas, Miriam ^a   Magariños, Ana María ^b   Mcewen, Bruce S ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Golgi analysis; Hippocampus; Radial arm maze; Spatial memory; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030047231     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)02016-0     Document Type: Article

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