Spatial learning and memory deficits following exposure to 24 h of sleep fragmentation or intermittent hypoxia in a rat model of obstructive sleep apnea

Brain Research

Volumn 1294, Issue , 2009, Pages 128-137

  Ward, Christopher P ^a,b   McCoy, John G ^a,c   McKenna, James T ^a   Connolly, Nina P ^a,d   McCarley, Robert W ^a   Strecker, Robert E ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE   (United States)

^c STONEHILL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d WHEATON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intermittent hypoxia; Sleep apnea; Sleep fragmentation; Spatial memory; Water maze

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; HYPOXIA; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TREADMILL;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; OXYGEN; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 70349159077     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.07.064     Document Type: Article

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