Sepsis facilitates brain serotonin activity and impairs learning ability in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 830, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 94-100

  Shimizu, Ichiro ^a   Adachi, Naoto ^a   Liu, Keyue ^a   Lei, Baiping ^a   Nagaro, Takumi ^a   Arai, Tatsuru ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Passive avoidance learning; Rat; Sepsis; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; 5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; BRAIN MONOAMINE; DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; METABOLITE; MONOAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERITONITIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEPSIS; SEROTONIN;

EID: 0033614711     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01396-7     Document Type: Article

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