Effects of γ-hydroxybutyric acid on spatial learning and memory in adolescent and adult female rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 187-193

  Sircar, Ratna ^a,b   Basak, Ashim ^a   Sircar, Debashish ^a   Wu, Li Cheng ^a  

^a FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Cognitive dysfunction; Juvenile; Memory deficit; Morris water maze; Spatial learning and memory

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE; 4-HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; AGE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; MEMORY; RANDOMIZATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYDROXYBUTYRATES; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77953697476     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2010.04.028     Document Type: Article

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