Behavioral effects of GM1 ganglioside treatment and intrahippocampal septal grafts in vats with fimbria-fornix lesions

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 520-530

  Roeser, Caroline ^a   Cassel, Jean Christophe ^a   Kelche, Christian ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Learning; Memory; Rat; Recovery

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; GANGLIOSIDE GM1; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOCOMOTION; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; G(M1) GANGLIOSIDE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

EID: 0030738996     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005722     Document Type: Article

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