Sex- and age-dependent effects of early postnatal sibling deprivation on spatial learning and memory in adult rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 138-142

  Li, Yan Qin ^a   Wang, Xiao yi ^a   Zhai, Hai feng ^a   Zhang, Xiang Yang ^b   Kosten, Therese ^b   Lu, Lin ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Development; Early postnatal sibling deprivation; Sex; Spatial learning and memory

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX FACTORS; SIBLINGS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 36049017339     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.07.028     Document Type: Article

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