Acute corticosterone replacement reinstates performance on spatial and nonspatial memory tasks 3 months after adrenalectomy despite degeneration in the dentate gyrus

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 518-531

  McCormick, Cheryl M ^a   McNamara, Megan ^b   Mukhopadhyay, Shiuli ^b   Kelsey, John E ^b  

^a BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECOGNITION;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; DENTATE GYRUS; ESCAPE REACTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RATS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0030914009     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.3.518     Document Type: Article

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