Effects of piracetam on the performance of rats in a delayed match-to- position task

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 211-228

  Christoffersen, Gert R J ^a   Von Linstow Roloff, Eva ^a   Nielsen, Karin Sandager ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Piracetam; Rat; Scopolamine; Working memory

Indexed keywords

PIRACETAM; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MALE; MEMORY; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; PIRACETAM; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SCOPOLAMINE; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031906117     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-5846(97)00104-8     Document Type: Article

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