Prenatal choline availability alters the context sensitivity of Pavlovian conditioning in adult rats

Learning and Memory

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 866-875

  Lamoureux, Jeffrey A ^a   Meck, Warren H ^a   Williams, Christina L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHOLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FETUS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHOLINE; CHOLINE DEFICIENCY; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 57349144494     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.1058708     Document Type: Article

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