Roles of oxytocin in spatial learning and memory in the nucleus basalis of Meynert in rats

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 120, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 119-125

  Wu, Wei ^a   Yu, Long Chuan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Morris water maze; Nucleus basalis of Meynert; Oxytocin; Oxytocin receptor; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ATOSIBAN; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; INJECTION; LATENT PERIOD; MAZE TEST; MEYNERT BASAL NUCLEUS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWIMMING; VELOCITY; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; OXYTOCIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SWIMMING; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 2642556149     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regpep.2004.02.017     Document Type: Article

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