Involvement of the ventral tegmental area in the inhibitory avoidance memory in rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 542-547

  Mahmoodi, Minoo ^a   Shahidi, Siamak ^b,c   Hasanein, Parisa ^d  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Lidocaine; Memory; Rat; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THETA RHYTHM; TRAINING; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LIDOCAINE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 79251562172     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.01.011     Document Type: Article

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