Choline supplementation facilitates short-term memory consolidation into intermediate long-term memory of young Sprague-Dawley rats

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 4-8

  Gossell Williams, Maxine ^a   Simon, O ^a   Young, L ^a   West, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PROTEIN DIET; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

EID: 33646587997     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0043-31442006000100002     Document Type: Article

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