Spatial short-term memory in rats: Effects of learning trials on metabolic activity of limbic structures

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 483, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-35

  Méndez López, Magdalena ^a   Méndez, Marta ^a   Begega, Azucena ^a   Arias, Jorge L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anterior thalamic nuclei; Cytochrome oxidase; Hippocampus; Mammillary bodies; Matching to position task; Water maze

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; DENTATE GYRUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAMILLARY BODIES; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77956111523     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.07.054     Document Type: Article

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