Guanidinoacetate administration increases acetylcholinesterase activity in striatum of rats and impairs retention of an inhibitory avoidance task

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 189-198

  Zugno, Alexandra I ^a,b   Pereira, Lenir O ^a   Mattos, Cristiane ^a   Scherer, Emilene B S ^a   Netto, Carlos A ^a   Wyse, Angela T S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO EXTREMO SUL CATARINENSE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Guanidinoacetate; Inhibitory avoidance task; Memory

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; GUANIDINOACETIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN DISEASES, METABOLIC, INBORN; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GLYCINE; LEARNING DISORDERS; NEURONS; RATS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

RATTUS;

EID: 44449160770     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-008-9085-6     Document Type: Article

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