Sodium-azide-induced learning deficits in rats: Time course and corresponding pathology

Psychobiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 34-47

  Croll, Susan D ^a   Greene, Nefertiti A ^a   Lindsay, Ronald M ^a   Wiegand, Stanley J ^a  

^a REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM AZIDE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEARNING DISORDER; LIMBIC CORTEX; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT;

EID: 0031001281     PISSN: 08896313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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