Stress after hippocampal stroke enhances spatial performance in rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 102, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 389-399

  Faraji, Jamshid ^a,b   Metz, Gerlinde A ^a   Sutherland, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Endotheline 1; Hippocampal stroke; Morris water task; Spatial performance; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ENDOTHELIN 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MORRIS WATER TASK; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL PERFORMANCE; STRESS; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ENDOTHELIN-1; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STROKE;

EID: 78650406497     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.11.032     Document Type: Article

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