Hippocampal endocannabinoids inhibit spatial learning and limit spatial memory in rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 198, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 551-563

  Robinson, Lianne ^a   McKillop Smith, Susan ^a   Ross, Nicola L ^a   Pertwee, Roger G ^a   Hampson, Robert E ^a,b   Platt, Bettina ^a   Riedel, Gernot ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endocannabinoids; Extinction; Rats; Spatial learning; SR141716A; Water maze

Indexed keywords

RIMONABANT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MINIPUMP; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SWIMMING; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICROINJECTIONS; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PIPERIDINES; PYRAZOLES; RATS; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1; SPACE PERCEPTION; SWIMMING;

EID: 44549087387     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-007-1012-8     Document Type: Article

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