Spatial learning and memory induce up-regulation of nitric oxide- producing neurons in rat brain

Brain Research

Volumn 801, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 101-106

  Zhang, Shiyi ^a   Chen, Jijun ^a   Wang, Songyan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Dentate gyms; Frontal cortex; Neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS); Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase (NADPH d); Rat; Spatial alternation

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DENTATE GYRUS; DRINKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0032504689     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00564-2     Document Type: Article

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