Mammillary body alterations and spatial memory impairment in Wistar rats with thioacetamide-induced cirrhosis

Brain Research

Volumn 1233, Issue , 2008, Pages 185-195

  Méndez, Marta ^a   Méndez López, Magdalena ^a   Lopez, Laudino ^a   Aller, María A ^b   Arias, Jaime ^b   Arias, Jorge L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Hepatic encephalopathy; Hippocampus; Mammillary body; Rat; Spatial memory; Stereology

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; THIOACETAMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN REGION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MAMILLARY BODIES; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; THIOACETAMIDE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 51449110574     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.07.040     Document Type: Article

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