Excitotoxic hippocampal lesions disrupt allocentric spatial learning in mice: Effects of strain and task demands

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 106, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 151-164

  Arns, Martijn ^a,b   Sauvage, Magdalena ^a   Steckler, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Ibotenic acid; Lesion; Mouse; Spatial learning; Strain

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032701901     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(99)00103-5     Document Type: Article

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