Pregnenolone sulfate infused in lateral septum of male rats impairs novel object recognition memory

Pharmacological Reports

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 265-272

  Nanfaro, Federico ^a   Cabrera, Ricardo ^a,b   Bazzocchini, Vanesa ^a,b   Laconi, Myrian ^a   Yunes, Roberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CUYO   (Argentina)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Lateral septum; Male rats (Sprague Dawley); Memory; Neuroactive steroids; Novel object recognition; Pregnenolone sulfate

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; PREGNENOLONE; PREGNENOLONE SULFATE;

ADULT ANIMAL; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREGNENOLONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEPTUM OF BRAIN;

EID: 77953307714     PISSN: 22995684     EISSN: 22995684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1734-1140(10)70265-6     Document Type: Article

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