Effect of traumatic brain injury on mouse spatial and nonspatial learning in the Barnes circular maze

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1037-1046

  Fox, Gerard B ^a   Fan, Lei ^a   Levasseur, Ryan A ^a   Faden, Alan I ^a,b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barnes circular maze; Brain trauma; Cognition; Controlled cortical impact

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SURVIVAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0031797073     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.1998.15.1037     Document Type: Article

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