Verapamil enhances acute stress or glucocorticoid-induced deficits in retrieval of long-term memory in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 76-80

  Rashidy Pour, Ali ^a   Vafaei, Abbas Ali ^a   Taherian, Abbas Ali ^a   Miladi Gorji, Hossein ^a   Sadeghi, Hassan ^a   Fathollahi, Yaghoub ^b   Bandegi, Ahmad Reza ^a  

^a SEMNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Glucocorticoids; Memory retrieval; Restraint stress; Verapamil; Voltage dependent calcium channels

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; VERAPAMIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FOOTSHOCK; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LATENT PERIOD; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; RECALL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CORTICOSTERONE; ELECTROSHOCK; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 67349101206     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.04.018     Document Type: Article

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