Testing hypotheses of spatial learning: The role of NMDA receptors and NMDA-mediated long-term potentiation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 179-193

  Cain, Donald P ^a   Saucier, Deborah ^a   Boon, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

( ) cis 4 phosphonomethyl 2 piperidine carboxylic acid; 2R,4R,5S 2 amino 4,5 (1,2 cyclohexyl) 7 phosphonoheptanoic acid; CGS19755; long term potentiation; N methyl D aspartate (NMDA); non spatial pretraining; NPC17742; sensorimotor disturbance; spatial learning; visual discrimination; water maze

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 4,5 (1,2 CYCLOHEXYL) 7 PHOSPHONOHEPTANOIC ACID; 4 PHOSPHONOMETHYLPIPECOLIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; LEARNING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; N-METHYLASPARTATE; PIPECOLIC ACIDS; RATS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031054222     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(96)00149-0     Document Type: Article

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