Effect of circadian phase on performance of rats in the Morris water maze task

Journal of Biological Rhythms

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 312-324

  Valentinuzzi, Verónica S ^a   Menna Barreto, Luiz ^a   Xavier, Gilberto F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Circadian; Learning; Motivation; Rats; Rhythms; Search pattern; Working memory

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; LEARNING; LIGHT; MASKING; MAZE TEST; MODULATION; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 3242720364     PISSN: 07487304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748730404265688     Document Type: Article

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