Effects of morphine dependence on the performance of rats in reference and working versions of the water maze

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 622-627

  Miladi Gorji, Hossein ^a   Rashidy Pour, Ali ^a   Fathollahi, Yaghoub ^b  

^a SEMNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Dependence; Morphine; Reference memory; Water Maze; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MORPHINE ADDICTION; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 38849127537     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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