Photoperiod interacts with food restriction in performance in the Barnes maze in female California mice

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 361-370

  Steinman, Michael Q ^a   Crean, Katie K ^a   Trainor, Brian C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Food deprivation; Hippocampus; Learning and memory; Photoperiodism; Spatial cognition; Synapsin I

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; SYNAPSIN I;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BARNES MAZE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DARKNESS; DIET RESTRICTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LIGHT; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPATIAL LEARNING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CALORIC RESTRICTION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; PEROMYSCUS; PHOTOPERIOD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; STEROIDS; SYNAPSINS;

EID: 78651444774     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07528.x     Document Type: Article

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