Role of dorsal hippocampus in acquisition, consolidation and retrieval of rat's passive avoidance response: A tetrodotoxin functional inactivation study

Brain Research

Volumn 730, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 32-39

  Lorenzini, Carlo Ambrogi ^a   Baldi, Elisabetta ^a   Bucherelli, Corrado ^a   Sacchetti, Benedetto ^a   Tassoni, Giovanna ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiologiche   (Italy)

Author keywords

acquisition; consolidation; dorsal hippocampus; functional inactivation; passive avoidance; retrieval; tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030593636     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00427-1     Document Type: Article

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