Adopted cognitive tests for gerbils: Validation by studying ageing and ischemia

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 107-114

  Wappler, Edina A ^a   Szilágyi, Géza ^a   Gál, Anikó ^a   Skopál, Judit ^a   Nyakas, Csaba ^a   Nagy, Zoltán ^a   Felszeghy, Klára ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Ageing; Hole board learning; Mongolian gerbil; Novel object recognition; Transient ischemia

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COGNITION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; GERBIL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; COGNITION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GERBILLINAE; HIPPOCAMPUS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 62749183392     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.02.011     Document Type: Article

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