Different vulnerability in female's spatial behaviour after unilateral hippocampal inactivation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 439, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 89-93

  Cimadevilla, José Manuel ^a   Arias, Jorge Luís ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Memory; Morris water maze; Rat; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

STAINLESS STEEL; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TETRODOTOXIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44649127312     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.01.014     Document Type: Article

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