Place learning in prefrontally ablated and L-nitro-arginine treated rats

Homeostasis in Health and Disease

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 193-203

  Mogensen, Jesper ^a,b   Ermens, Petra ^a   Moustgaard, Anette ^a   Wörtwein, Gitta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

L nitro arginine; learning; neural plasticity; nitric oxide; place learning; prefrontal cortex; rat; recovery; water maze

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITROARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030469962     PISSN: 09607560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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