Acquisition deficit and time-dependent retrograde amnesia for contextual fear conditioning in agmatine-treated rats

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 93-97

  Stewart, Lee S ^a,b   McKay, B E ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agmatine; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Learning; NMDA receptor; Rat

Indexed keywords

AGMATINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; DRUG INHIBITION; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0034004250     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008877-200002000-00011     Document Type: Article

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