A dose of MK801 previously shown to impair spatial learning in the radial maze attenuates primed burst potentiation in the dentate gyrus of freely moving rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 35-48

  Hargreaves, E L ^a   Cote D ^a   Shapiro, M L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIZOCILPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECALL; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0343683346     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.1.35     Document Type: Article

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