A long-term stress exposure impairs maze learning performance in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 273, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 125-128

  Nishimura, Jun Ichi ^a   Endo, Yutaka ^a   Kimura, Fukuko ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic stress; Glucocorticoid; Hippocampus; Memory; Radial arm maze; Rats

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ANIMALS; COLD; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMERSION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFERENCE VALUES; STRESS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032821418     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00645-X     Document Type: Article

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