NMDA glutamatergic blockade of nucleus accumbens disrupts acquisition but not consolidation in a passive avoidance task

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 877, Issue , 1999, Pages 717-722

  Gargiulo, P A ^a,b   Martinez G ^a,b   Ropero, C ^a,b   Funes, A ^a,b   Landa, A I ^b  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^b Fac de Hum y Cie de la Educacion   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BIRD; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OLFACTORY CORTEX; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; RAT; TEGMENTUM;

EID: 0032789208     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb09309.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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