Partial hippocampal inactivation: Effects on spatial memory performance in aged and young rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 940-949

  Poea, G R ^a   Teeda, R G W ^a   Insela, N ^a   Whitea, R ^a   McNaughton, B L ^b   Barnes, C A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACAINE;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; NERVE NET; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PILOT PROJECTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SPACE PERCEPTION; SYNAPSES; TETRACAINE;

EID: 0033784198     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037//0735-7044.114.5.940     Document Type: Article

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