Spontaneously hypertensive rats: A potential model to identify drugs for treatment of learning disorders

Hypertension

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 968-972

  Meneses, Alfredo ^a,b   Hong, Enrique ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Aging; Inbred SHR; Learning; Memory; Models; Pharmacology; Rats

Indexed keywords

NIMODIPINE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0031954591     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.31.4.968     Document Type: Article

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