Impairment of maze learning in rats following long-term glucocorticoid treatments

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 203, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 199-202

  Endo, Yutaka ^a   Nishimura, Jun Ichi ^b   Kimura, Fukuko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Glucocorticoid; Hippocampus; Memory; Radial arm maze; Rats

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030065554     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(95)12296-6     Document Type: Article

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