Non-acute effects of different doses of 3, 4- methylenedioxymethamphetamine on spatial memory in the Morris water maze in Sprague-Dawley male rats

Neural Regeneration Research

Volumn 6, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 1715-1719

  Asl, Sara Soleimani ^a   Farhadi, Mohammad Hassan ^b   Naghdi, Nasser ^c   Choopani, Samira ^c   Samzadeh Kermani, Alireza ^d   Mehdizadeh, Mehdi ^a,e  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZABOL   (Iran)

^e TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

3; 4 methylendioxymethamphetamine; Morris water maze; Neural regeneration; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MORTALITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 80053217335     PISSN: 16735374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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