Morphine-induced impairment of spatial memory acquisition reversed by morphine sensitization in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 156-163

  Farahmandfar, Maryam ^a,b   Karimian, Seyed Morteza ^a   Naghdi, Nasser ^b   Zarrindast, Mohammad Reza ^a   Kadivar, Mehdi ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Morphine; Morris water maze; Naloxone; Rat; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; NALOXONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESPONSE; LEARNING; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ESCAPE REACTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; MORPHINE; NARCOTICS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77952424445     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.03.013     Document Type: Article

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