Intracerebral microinjections of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol: Search for the impairment of spatial memory in the eight-arm radial maze in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 952, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 239-245

  Egashira, Nobuaki ^a   Mishima, Kenichi ^a   Iwasaki, Katsunori ^a   Fujiwara, Michihiro ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cannabinoid; Dorsal hippocampus; Radial maze; Rat; Spatial memory; Ventral hippocampus

Indexed keywords

2,3 DIHYDRO 5 METHYL 3 (MORPHOLINOMETHYL) 6 (1 NAPHTHOYL)PYRROLO[1,2,3 DE][1,4]BENZOXAZINE; 4 (1,1 DIMETHYLHEPTYL) 1',2',3',4',5',6' HEXAHYDRO 2,3' DIHYDROXY 6' (3 HYDROXYPROPYL)BIPHENYL; RIMONABANT; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL;

AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; FOREBRAIN; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; MAZE TEST; MEDIAN RAPHE NUCLEUS; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERSEVERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICROINJECTIONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE PERCEPTION; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL;

EID: 0037131069     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)03247-X     Document Type: Article

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