Melatonin administration impairs visuo-spatial performance and inhibits neocortical long-term potentiation in rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 408-414

  Soto Moyano, Rubén ^a   Burgos, Héctor ^b   Flores, Francisco ^a   Valladares, Luis ^a   Sierralta, Walter ^a   Fernández, Victor ^c   Pérez, Hernán ^a   Hernández, Paula ^d   Hernández, Alejandro ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SANTO TOMÁS   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^d Laboratory of Neurosciences   (Chile)

Author keywords

Long term potentiation; Melatonin; Rat; Visual cortex; Visuo spatial memory

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DRUG EFFECT; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MELATONIN; MEMORY; NEOCORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845320721     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2006.09.009     Document Type: Article

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