Comparison of effects of global cerebral ischaemia on spatial learning in the standard and radial water maze: Relationship of hippocampal damage to performance

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 93-115

  Nelson, Alan ^a   Lebessi, Antigone ^a   Sowinski, Peter ^a   Hodges, Helen ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CA1 hippocampal field; elevated plus maze; four vessel occlusion; global ischaemia; open field; spatial learning; water maze; water radial maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031049849     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(96)00167-2     Document Type: Article

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