Water maze learning and hippocampal synaptic plasticity in streptozotocin-diabetic rats: Effects of insulin treatment

Brain Research

Volumn 800, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 125-135

  Biessels, Geert Jan ^a,b   Kamal, Amer ^a   Urban, Ivan J A ^a   Spruijt, Berrie M ^a   Erkelens, D Willem ^b   Gispen, Willem Hendrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Hippocampus; Insulin; Learning; Long term potentiation; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSULIN TREATMENT; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE TEST; METABOLIC DISORDER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSULIN; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFERENCE VALUES; SCIATIC NERVE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032572613     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00510-1     Document Type: Article

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