Behavioral effects of agmatine in naive rats are task- and delay-dependent

Neuroscience

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 82-96

  Liu, P ^a   Collie, N D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

agmatine; anxiety; exploration; object recognition; reference memory; working memory

Indexed keywords

AGMATINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HABITUATION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGMATINE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 68349127366     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.05.061     Document Type: Article

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