Inhibitory avoidance and appetitive learning in aged normal mice: Comparison with transgenic mice having elevated plasma growth hormone levels

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-12

  Meliska, Charles J ^a,b   Burke, Philip A ^a   Bartke, Andrzej ^a   Jensen, Robert A ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0031193957     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1997.3772     Document Type: Article

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