Differential effects of lidocaine infusions into the ventral CA1/subiculum or the nucleus accumbens on the acquisition and retention of spatial information

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 81, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 163-171

  Floresco, Stan B ^a   Seamans, Jeremy K ^a   Phillips, Anthony G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ca1 subiculum; Morris water maze; nucleus accumbens; rats; reversible lidocaine induced lesion; spatial learning and memory; ventral hippocampus

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; CUES; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; SWIMMING;

EID: 0030296633     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(96)00058-7     Document Type: Article

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