Age-related working memory deficits in the allocentric place discrimination task: possible involvement in cholinergic dysfunction

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 629-636

  Kikusui, Takefumi ^a   Tonohiro, Toshiyuki ^a   Kaneko, Tsugio ^a  

^a DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Aging; Allocetric spatial cognition; Water maze; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; PHYSOSTIGMINE SALICYLATE;

AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PHYSOSTIGMINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033383670     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(99)00096-2     Document Type: Article

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