Effects of beta-adrenergic antagonist, propranolol on spatial memory and exploratory behavior in mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 498, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-137

  Sun, Huaying ^a   Mao, Yu ^a,b   Wang, Jianhong ^a   Ma, Yuanye ^a,c  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Mice; Propranolol; Spatial memory; Y maze

Indexed keywords

PROPRANOLOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PROPRANOLOL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79958710222     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.04.076     Document Type: Article

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