Nicotine improves Morris water task performance in rats given medial frontal cortex lesions

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 473-478

  Brown, Russell W ^a   Gonzalez, Claudia L R ^a   Kolb, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Frontal cortex; Lesions; Morris water task; Nicotine; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ARACHIS OIL; NICOTINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FRONTAL CORTEX; LATENT PERIOD; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; FRONTAL LOBE; GANGLIONIC STIMULANTS; MALE; MEMORY; NICOTINE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

ANIMALIA; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA;

EID: 0034493024     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(00)00398-1     Document Type: Article

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