Neonatal ventral hippocampal lesions in male and female rats: Effects on water maze, locomotor activity, plus-maze and prefrontal cortical GABA and glutamate release in adulthood

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 198-209

  Beninger, Richard J ^a   Tuerke, Katharine J ^a   Forsyth, Jennifer K ^a   Giles, Andrew ^a   Xue, Lihua ^a   Boegman, Roland J ^a   Jhamandas, Khem ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

GABA; Gender; Ibotenic acid; l glutamate; Learning; Maze; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMPHETAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; IBOTENIC ACID; POTASSIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POTASSIUM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SWIMMING;

EID: 65549138454     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.03.044     Document Type: Article

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