Long-term memory was impaired in one-trial passive avoidance task of day-old chicks hatching from hypomagnetic field space

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2454-2457

  Wang, Xuebin ^a,b   Xu, Muling ^a   Li, Bing ^a   Li, Dongfeng ^c   Jiang, Jinchang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b LINYI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Day old chicks; Geomagnetism field space; Impaired; Long term memory; One trial passive avoidance task

Indexed keywords

EID: 7444258946     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03wc0231     Document Type: Article

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