The effects of neonatal choline dietary supplementation on adult spatial and configural learning and memory in rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 226-240

  Tees, Richard C ^a   Mohammadi, Ehsan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Configural learning; Neonatal choline; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FOREBRAIN; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CHOLINE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 0032726466     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199911)35:3<226::AID-DEV7>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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