Functional inactivation of dorsal hippocampus impairs active place avoidance in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 285, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 53-56

  Cimadevilla, Jose M ^a,b   Fenton, Andre A ^a   Bures, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Functional ablation; Hippocampus; Place avoidance; Rat; Spatial orientation; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CATHETER ABLATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0034607959     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01019-3     Document Type: Article

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