The astrocytes number in different subfield of rat's hippocampus in reference memory learning method

Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 3964-3966

  Mehrdad, Jahanshahi ^a   Sadeghi, Y ^b   Hosseini, A ^b   Naghdi, N ^c  

^a GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Hippocampus; Reference memory; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 36849015818     PISSN: 10288880     EISSN: 18125735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2007.3964.3966     Document Type: Article

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