Hippocampus in delay eyeblink classical conditioning: Essential for nefiracetam amelioration of learning in older rabbits

Brain Research

Volumn 747, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 207-218

  Woodruff Pak, Diana S ^a,b   Yong Tong Li, ^a,b   Hinchliffe, Richard M ^a   Port, Richard L ^c  

^a POLISHER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; Alzheimer's disease; cognition enhancing; memory; nootropic

Indexed keywords

NEFIRACETAM; NOOTROPIC AGENT;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLINKING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; PYRROLIDINONES; RABBITS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0031039999     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01191-2     Document Type: Article

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