Lidocaine reversible inactivation of the median raphe nucleus has no effect on reference memory but enhances working memory versions of the Morris water maze task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 1-9

  Sarihi, Abdolrahman ^a,e   Motamedi, Fereshteh ^b   Naghdi, Nasser ^c   Rashidy Pour, Ali ^d  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^d SEMNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Median raphe nucleus; Morris water maze; Reference memory; Reversible inactivation; Serotonin; Spatial memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEDIAN RAPHE NUCLEUS; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMAL; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICROINJECTIONS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0034283293     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00176-5     Document Type: Article

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