Losartan improves the performance of ethanol-intoxicated rats in an eight-arm radial maze

Alcohol

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 511-517

  Tracy Jr , Harry A ^a   Wayner, Matthew J ^a   Armstrong, Deborah L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Angiotensin II; AT1 receptor; Cognition; Learning; Long term potentiation (LTP); Losartan; Memory; Radial maze

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR; LOSARTAN;

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRANULE CELL; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; ETHANOL; LEARNING; LOSARTAN; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, ANGIOTENSIN, TYPE 1; RECEPTOR, ANGIOTENSIN, TYPE 2; RECEPTORS, ANGIOTENSIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0342813130     PISSN: 07418329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0741-8329(97)00041-4     Document Type: Article

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