Facilitatory effects of thalamic reticular nucleus lesions on two-way active avoidance in rats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 511-516

  Tenas Huerga, N ^a   Coll Andreu, M ^a   Guillazo Blanch, G ^a   Marti Nicolovius M ^a   Morgado Bernal, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Learning; Memory; Rat; Thalamic reticular nucleus; Two way active avoidance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; FACILITATION; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0031983962     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050307     Document Type: Article

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