The locus coeruleus involves in consolidation and memory retrieval, but not in acquisition of inhibitory avoidance learning task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 257-262

  Khakpour Taleghani, Behrooz ^a   Lashgari, Reza ^b,c,d   Aavani, Tooka ^b   Haghparast, Abbas ^b   Naderi, Nima ^b   Motamedi, Fereshteh ^b  

^a GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Imam Bagher (as) Institute of Science and Technology   (Iran)

^d INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

Author keywords

Inhibitory avoidance task; Learning and memory; Lidocaine; Locus coeruleus; Rat; Reversible inactivation

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEARNING; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LIDOCAINE; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 41149133745     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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