Both ethanol toxicity and thiamine deficiency are necessary to produce long-term memory deficits in the young chick

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 461-470

  Crowe, Simon F ^a   Kempton, Stephanie ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Day old chick; Ethanol; Memory; Oxythiamine; Pyrithiamine; Thiamine; Wernicke Korsakoff syndrome

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHTING REFLEX; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030759119     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(97)10001-6     Document Type: Article

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