Excitotoxic lesion of the perirhinal cortex impairs spatial working memory in a delayed-alternation task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 349-354

  Maioli, Silvia ^a,b   Gangarossa, Giuseppe ^a   Locchi, Federica ^a   Andrioli, Anna ^c   Bertini, Giuseppe ^c   Rimondini, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ibotenic acid; Lesion; Perirhinal cortex; Rat; Water T maze; Working memory

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CAUDAL STRIATUM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WATER T MAZE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84859269831     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.02.030     Document Type: Article

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