Effects of postnatal malnutrition and senescence on learning, long-term memory, and extinction in the rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 48-53

  Martínez, Yvonne ^a   Díaz Cintra, Sofía ^a   León Jacinto, Uriel ^a   Aguilar Vázquez, Azucena ^a   Medina, Andrea C ^a   Quirarte, Gina L ^a   Prado Alcalá, Roberto A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROBIOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Active avoidance; Ageing; Extinction; Learning; Memory; Postnatal malnutrition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SENESCENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BODY WEIGHT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67349124400     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.04.016     Document Type: Article

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