Emergence of an egocentric cue guiding and allocentric inferring strategy that mirrors hippocampal brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) expression in the Morris water maze

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 462-479

  Harvey, Deirdre R ^a   McGauran, Anne Marie T ^a   Murphy, Jonathan ^a   Burns, Lauren ^a   McMonagle, Eoghan ^a   Commins, Sean ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Allocentric; BDNF; Hippocampus; Spatial navigation; Water maze

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COGNITION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE PERCEPTION; SWIMMING; WATER;

EID: 41649098353     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2007.08.013     Document Type: Article

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