Chronic intracerebroventricular NGF administration improves working memory in young adult memory deficient rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 382, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 45-50

  Jakubowska Doǧru, Ewa ^a   Gümüşbaş, Umut ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Delayed matching to position; Nerve growth factor; Spatial working memory; Young adult rats

Indexed keywords

DRUG VEHICLE; RECOMBINANT NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG SCREENING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC MINIPUMP; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SAMPLE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TRAINING; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 19444369701     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.02.059     Document Type: Article

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