Tuberomammillary nucleus lesion facilitates two-way active avoidance retention in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 113-117

  Segura Torres, Pilar ^a   Wagner, Uwe ^b   Massanes Rotger, Ester ^a   Aldavert Vera, Laura ^a   Marti Nicolovius, Margarita ^a   Morgado Bernal, Ignacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

learning; lesion; memory; tuberomammillary nucleus; two way active avoidance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030468894     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)81114-X     Document Type: Article

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