Binge inhalation of toluene vapor produces dissociable motor and cognitive dysfunction in water maze tasks

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 669-677

  Gmaz, Jimmie M ^a   Yang, Linda ^a   Ahrari, Aida ^a   McKay, Bruce E ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

motor dysfunction; rat; reversal learning; spatial learning; toluene; water maze

Indexed keywords

TOLUENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; INHALATION; INTOXICATION; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; RECALL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VAPOR;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REVERSAL LEARNING; SOLVENTS; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS; TOLUENE;

EID: 84866328524     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: 14735849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e3283585923     Document Type: Article

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