Chronic stress impairs rat spatial memory on the Y maze, and this effect is blocked by tianeptine pretreatment

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1321-1334

  Conrad, Cheryl D ^a   Galea, Liisa A M ^a   Kuroda, Yasukazu ^a   McEwen, Bruce S ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; KAINIC ACID; TIANEPTINE; TRIMETHYLTIN;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THIAZEPINES;

EID: 0030447110     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.6.1321     Document Type: Article

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