Effects of coupled perirhinal cortex and medial septal area, fimbria- fornix, entorhinal cortex tetrodotoxin inactivations on passive avoidance consolidation in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 280, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 91-94

  Baldi, Elisabetta ^a   Ambrogi Lorenzini, Carlo ^a   Sacchetti, Benedetto ^a   Tassoni, Giovanna ^a   Bucherelli, Corrado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Combined tetrodotoxin reversible inactivation; Entorhinal cortex; Fimbria fornix; Medial septal area; Memory consolidation; Perirhinal cortex; Rat's passive avoidance response

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FORNIX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FORNIX (BRAIN); LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEPTUM OF BRAIN; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0033976534     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)00783-7     Document Type: Article

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