Behavioral effects of protein deprivation and rehabilitation in adult rats: Relevance to morphological alterations in the hippocampal formation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 85-97

  Lukoyanov, Nikolai V ^a   Andrade, José P ^a  

^a Porto Medical School   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Long term protein malnutrition; Morris water maze; Neuron number; Open field; Passive avoidance; Rat; Stereology; Synapse number

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CELL COUNT; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; NEURONS; NUTRITION DISORDERS; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0034223256     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00164-9     Document Type: Article

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