Impaired cognitive performance in rats after complete epithalamus lesions, but not after pinealectomy alone

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 276-285

  Lecourtier, Lucas ^a,b   Saboureau, Michel ^b   Kelly, Christopher D ^c   Pévet, Paul ^b   Kelly, Peter H ^a  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Habenular nuclei; Morris maze; Pineal gland; Prepulse inhibition; Schizophrenia; Social interaction; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHALAMUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERPEDUNCULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PINEAL BODY; PINEALECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIOLOGY; STARTLE REFLEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN DISEASES; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; EPITHALAMUS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PINEAL GLAND; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; STARTLE REACTION; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 19544361871     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.02.014     Document Type: Article

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