Pretraining affects Morris water maze performance with different patterns between control and ovariectomized plus d-galactose-injected mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 244-247

  Li, Liu ^a   Ding, Jiong ^a   Marshall, Charles ^b   Gao, Junying ^a   Hu, Gang ^a   Xiao, Ming ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; D galactose; Mice; Morris water maze; Spatial learning and memory

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; LEARNING; LETTER; MAZE TEST; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THERAPY EFFECT;

EID: 78650177521     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.10.032     Document Type: Article

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