Perinatal nutritional iron deficiency permanently impairs hippocampus-dependent trace fear conditioning in rats

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 195-206

  McEchron, Matthew D ^a   Cheng, Alex Y ^a   Liu, Heng ^a   Connor, James R ^a   Gilmartin, Marieke R ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Development; Hippocampus; Iron; Learning; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IRON DEFICIENCY; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IRON; PREGNANCY; RATS;

EID: 23644432583     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10284150500162952     Document Type: Article

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