Activity and passive-avoidance learning in cobalt-injected rats

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 29-33

  Czarnota, Michael ^a   Whitman, Douglas ^b,c   Berman, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cobalt; Hard metal disease; Learning deficits; Metal toxicity; Occupational toxicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032005665     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00207459808986409     Document Type: Article

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