Rats with low levels of brain docosahexaenoic acid show impaired performance in olfactory-based and spatial learning tasks

Lipids

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  Greiner, Rebecca Sheaff ^a   Moriguchi, Toru ^a   Hutton, Ana ^a   Slotnick, Burton M ^b   Salem Jr , Norman ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; LIPID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; FEMALE; LEARNING; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0032996011     PISSN: 00244201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02562305     Document Type: Conference Paper

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