Intrahippocampal infusion of the NMDA receptor antagonist AP5 impairs retention of an inhibitory avoidance task: Protection from impairment by pretraining or preexposure to the task apparatus

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 87-91

  Roesler, Rafael ^a,b   Vianna, Monica ^a   Sant' Anna, Marcia K ^a   Kuyven, Carlos Renato ^a   Kruel, Andre V S ^a   Quevedo, Joao ^a   Ferreira, Maria Beatriz Cardoso ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 0031904245     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1997.3810     Document Type: Article

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