A rotating holeboard procedure for testing drug effects on spatial learning and memory in mice

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 331-338

  Brosnan Watters, Gayle ^a,b,c   Wozniak, David F ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Holeboard, reference memory; Mice; Spatial learning and memory; Trial independent memory

Indexed keywords

DIZOCILPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANIMALS; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PSYCHOLOGY; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031251742     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-299X(97)00007-X     Document Type: Article

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