Spatial learning and memory deficits induced by exposure to iron-56- particle radiation

Radiation Research

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 28-33

  Shukitt Hale, Barbara ^a   Casadesus, Gemma ^a   McEwen, John J ^a   Rabin, Bernard M ^b   Joseph, James A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMONAUT; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAT; SPACE FLIGHT; SPATIAL MEMORY; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033931280     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/0033-7587(2000)154[0028:SLAMDI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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