The effect of subchronic fluoxetine treatment on learning and memory in adolescent rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 169-175

  Sass, Amdi ^a   Wörtwein, Gitta ^a,b  

^a Laboratory of Neuropsychiatry   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Anxiety; Learning; Memory; Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FLUOXETINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROGENESIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 84155176829     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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