Effects of combined medial septal area, fimbria-fornix and entorhinal cortex tetrodotoxin inactivations on passive avoidance response consolidation in the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 821, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 503-510

  Baldi, Elisabetta ^a   Ambrogi Lorenzini, Carlo ^a   Sacchetti, Benedetto ^a   Tassoni, Giovanna ^a   Bucherelli, Corrado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Combined tetrodotoxin reversible inactivation; Entorhinal cortex; Fimbria fornix complex; Medial septal area; Memory consolidation; Rat's passive avoidance

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DARKNESS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEPTAL NUCLEI; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0344348854     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01116-6     Document Type: Article

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