Analysis of mnemonic processing by means of totally reversible neural inactivations

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 391-398

  Ambrogi Lorenzini, Carlo G ^a   Baldi, Elisabetta ^a   Bucherelli, Corrado ^a   Sacchetti, Benedetto ^a   Tassoni, Giovanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Passive avoidance conditioning; Temporal memory processing; Tetrodotoxin inactivation

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEREOTAXIS;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0031251830     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-299X(97)00017-2     Document Type: Article

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