Reversible lesion of the rat's orbitofrontal cortex interferes with hippocampus-dependent spatial memory

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-68

  Vafaei, Abbas Ali ^a,b   Rashidy Pour, Ali ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b SEMNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cognition; Morris water maze; Orbitofrontal cortex; Place avoidance task; Rats; Reversible inactivation; Spatial memory; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHOCK; SPATIAL MEMORY; TRAINING;

EID: 0347931751     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00209-2     Document Type: Article

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