Chronic periadolescent cannabinoid treatment enhances adult hippocampal PSA-NCAM expression in male Wistar rats but only has marginal effects on anxiety, learning and memory

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 482-490

  Higuera Matas, A ^a   Botreau, F ^a   Miguens M ^a   Del Olmo, N ^b   Borcel, E ^a   Perez Alvarez L ^a   Garcia Lecumberri C ^a   Ambrosio, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SAN PABLO CEU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cannabinoid; LTP; Periadolescence; Polysialic acid neural cell adhesion molecule; Reference memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

4 (1,1 DIMETHYLHEPTYL) 1',2',3',4',5',6' HEXAHYDRO 2,3' DIHYDROXY 6' (3 HYDROXYPROPYL)BIPHENYL; CANNABINOID; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; POLYSIALIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; UPREGULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CANNABINOIDS; CORTICOSTERONE; CUES; CYCLOHEXANOLS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; PRESENILIN-1; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTOSOMES;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 68049107192     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2009.06.013     Document Type: Article

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