Age-related deficits in mice performing working memory tasks in a water maze

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 485-495

  Magnusson, Kathy R ^a,b   Scruggs, Brandi ^a   Aniya, Jennifer ^a   Wright, Karl C ^a   Ontl, Todd ^a   Xing, Yiding ^a   Bai, Ling ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

AGE; AGING; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL;

EID: 0037837259     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.3.485     Document Type: Article

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