Spatial discrimination reversal learning in weanling rats is impaired by striatal administration of an NMDA-receptor antagonist

Learning and Memory

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 564-572

  Watson, Deborah J ^a,b   Stanton, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIZOCILPINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; REVERSAL LEARNING; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 69749105640     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.1448009     Document Type: Article

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