The corticosteroid synthesis inhibitors metyrapone and aminoglutethimide impair long-term memory for a passive avoidance task in day-old chicks

Brain Research

Volumn 769, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 357-361

  Loscertales, Maria ^a,b   Rose, Steven P R ^a   Sandi, Carmen ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aminoglutethimide; Chick; Corticosterone; Glucocorticoid; Learning; Memory; Metyrapone; Pa ssive avoidance

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLUTETHIMIDE; METYRAPONE;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHICKEN; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID METABOLISM; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; LONG TERM MEMORY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AMINOGLUTETHIMIDE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY; METYRAPONE;

EID: 0030730532     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00735-X     Document Type: Article

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