Learning of a T-maze by rat pups when contact with the mother is either permitted or denied

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 2-12

  Panagiotaropoulos, Theofanis ^a   Diamantopoulou, Anastasia ^a   Stamatakis, Antonios ^a   Dimitropoulou, Maria ^a   Stylianopoulou, Fotini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

c Fos; Dorsal striatum; Early experiences; Frustrative non reward; Hippocampus; Mother pup attachment; Orbitofrontal cortex; Procedural like memory; Stimulus response learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PUP (RODENT); RAT; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CORPUS STRIATUM; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REWARD;

EID: 58549111783     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2008.09.007     Document Type: Article

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