Cognitive dysfunctions induced by scopolamine are reduced by systemic or intrahippocampal mineralocorticoid receptor blockade

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 613-621

  Smythe, James W ^a   Murphy, Deborah ^a   Timothy, Carryl ^a   Gul, Gul H Hassan ^a   Costall, Brenda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

acquisition; cholinergic; cognition; hippocampus; mineralocorticoid; peripheral; rat; retenti on; scopolamine; spironolactone; water maze

Indexed keywords

MINERALOCORTICOID ANTAGONIST; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; SCOPOLAMINE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; INTRACEREBRAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030929754     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(96)00415-7     Document Type: Article

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