Acute exposure to a 50 Hz magnetic field impairs consolidation of spatial memory in rats

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 387-392

  Jadidi, Majid ^a   Firoozabadi, Seyed Mohammad ^b   Rashidy Pour, Ali ^a   Sajadi, Ahmad Ali ^a   Sadeghi, Hassan ^a   Taherian, Abbas Ali ^a  

^a SEMNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acute exposure; Consolidation; Magnetic field; Retrieval; Spatial memory; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 34848851063     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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