The ventral midline thalamus (Reuniens and rhomboid nuclei) contributes to the persistence of spatial memory in rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 29, 2012, Pages 9947-9959

  Loureiro, Michaël ^a   Cholvin, Thibault ^a   Lopez, Joëlle ^a   Merienne, Nicolas ^a   Latreche, Asma ^a   Cosquer, Brigitte ^a   Geiger, Karine ^a   Kelche, Christian ^a   Cassel, Jean Christophe ^a   de Vasconcelos, Anne Pereira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; MOTOR ACTIVITY; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84863977497     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0410-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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