Chronic ethanol intake and object recognition in young and adult rats

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 831-837

  Garcı́ a Moreno, Luis M ^a   Conejo, N ^b   Capilla, Almudena ^a   Garcı́ a Sánchez, Olga ^a   Senderek, Kamila ^a   Arias, Jorge L ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age; Alcoholism; Hippocampus; Long term memory; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HABITUATION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECOGNITION;

AGING; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ETHANOL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0036592339     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-5846(01)00327-X     Document Type: Article

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