Selective hippocampal cholinergic deafferentation impairs self-movement cue use during a food hoarding task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 78-86

  Martin, Megan M ^a   Wallace, Douglas G ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dead reckoning; Long Evans species; Medial septum; Path integration; Spatial mapping

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DENERVATION; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORIENTATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34547886478     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.05.026     Document Type: Article

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