Acute perinatal asphyxia impairs non-spatial memory and alters motor coordination in adult male rats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 595-601

  Simola, Nicola ^a   Bustamante, Diego ^b   Pinna, Annalisa ^a,c   Pontis, Silvia ^a   Morales, Paola ^b   Morelli, Micaela ^a,c   Herrera Marschitz, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asphyctic insult; Cognitive deficit; Object recognition; Rat; Rotarod

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITION; FETUS; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; ROTAROD TEST; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASPHYXIA; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 43149126119     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1186-7     Document Type: Article

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