Dentate gyrus-selective colchicine lesion and disruption of performance in spatial tasks: Difficulties in 'place strategy' because of a lack of flexibility in the use of environmental cues?

Hippocampus

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 668-681

  Xavier, Gilberto F ^a   Oliveira Filho, Francisco J B ^a   Santos, Andréa M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

CA1; CA3; Dentate gyrus; Entorhinal cortex; Hippocampus; Learning

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN INJURY; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STEREOLOGY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; COGNITION; COLCHICINE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DENERVATION; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; ENVIRONMENT; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SWIMMING;

EID: 0033396242     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1999)9:6<668::AID-HIPO8>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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