Postoperative environmental enrichment attenuates fimbria-fornix lesion- induced impairments in Morris maze performance

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-28

  Van Rijzingen, I M S ^a   Gispen, W H ^a   Spruijt, B M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030852369     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1996.3735     Document Type: Article

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