The double-H maze test, a novel, simple, water-escape memory task: Acquisition, recall of recent and remote memory, and effects of systemic muscarinic or NMDA receptor blockade during training

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 138-151

  Pol Bodetto, Sarah ^a   Jeltsch David, Hélène ^a   Lecourtier, Lucas ^a   Rusnac, Nathalia ^a   Mam Lam Fook, Célia ^a   Cosquer, Brigitte ^a   Geiger, Karin ^a   Cassel, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Automatism; Declarative like memory; Hippocampus; Learning; Maze; Muscarinic; N methyl d aspartate; Procedural memory; Rat; Spatial; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SCOPOLAMINE;

EID: 78650139052     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.11.043     Document Type: Article

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