Prevention of memory loss for a brightness change in adult and middle-aged rats by postacquisition treatment with glucose

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 119-123

  Hughes, Robert N ^a   Neeson, Lindan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Age related effects; Glucose; Memory; Novelty; Responsiveness to change

Indexed keywords

DRUG VEHICLE; GLUCOSE;

AGE; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRIGHTNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; INJECTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DARKNESS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; LIGHTING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 1642300808     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(03)00192-8     Document Type: Article

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