Effects of age and sex on the water maze performance and hippocampal cholinergic fibers in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 141-144

  Lukoyanov, Nikolai V ^a   Andrade, José P ^a   Dulce Madeira, M ^a   Paula Barbosa, Manuel M ^a  

^a Porto Medical School   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Aging; Cholingeric innervation; Dentate gyrus; Gender; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE FIBERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033575467     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00442-5     Document Type: Article

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