Temporary inactivation of the supramammillary area impairs spatial working memory and spatial reference memory retrieval

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 322-330

  Aranda, Lourdes ^a   Begega, Azucena ^b   Sánchez López, Jorge ^a   Aguirre, José A ^a   Arias, Jorge L ^b   Santín, Luis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Delayed matched to position task; Spatial memory; Sprague Dawley rats; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 43549089945     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.01.024     Document Type: Article

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