Nicotine improves AF64A-induced spatial memory deficits in Morris water maze in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 469, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 88-92

  Yamada, Kazuo ^a   Furukawa, Satoshi ^a,b   Iwasaki, Tsuneo ^a,c   Ichitani, Yukio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b KUNITACHI COLLEGE OF MUSIC   (Japan)

^c MEJIRO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ethylcholine mustard aziridinium ion; Morris water maze; Nicotine; Rat; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ETHYLCHOLINE MUSTARD AZIRIDINIUM; NICOTINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; AZIRIDINES; CHOLINE; ESCAPE REACTION; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 72649085663     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.11.050     Document Type: Article

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