Behavioral Effects of Intracerebroventricular Microinfusion of Agmatine in Adult Rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 557-569

  Liu, Ping ^a   Rushaidhi, Madihah ^a   Collie, Nicola D ^a   Leong, Mei Ting ^a   Zhang, Hu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

agmatine; anxiety; memory; object recognition; spatial learning

Indexed keywords

AGMATINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECOGNITION; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

AGMATINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44649106241     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.122.3.557     Document Type: Article

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