Performance by adult rats in sensory-mediated radial arm maze tasks is not impaired and may be transiently enhanced by chronic exposure to ethanol

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1553-1559

  Steigerwald, Elizabeth S ^a   Miller, Michael W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Research Service

Author keywords

Alcohol; Learning; Memory; Odor task; Spatial task

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WEIGHT GAIN; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031473067     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1997.tb04489.x     Document Type: Article

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