Effects of training in the Morris water maze on the spatial learning acquisition and VAChT expression in male rats

DARU, Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 166-172

  Hosseini Sharifabad, A ^a   Mohammadi Eraghi, S ^a   Tabrizian, K ^b   Soodi, M ^a   Khorshidahmad, T ^a   Naghdi, N ^c   Abdollahi, M ^a   Beyer, C ^d   Roghani, A ^e   Sharifzadeh, M ^a,d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ZABOL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition phase; Cholinergic markers; Hippocampus; Immunohistochenistry; Medial septal area; Western blottig

Indexed keywords

VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SWIMMING; TISSUE SECTION; TRAINING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 79958125608     PISSN: 15608115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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