Effects of intrahippocampal l-NAME treatment on the behavioral long-term potentiation in dentate gyrus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 528, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 201-204

  Li, Chu Hua ^a   Wang, Shu Zhen ^b   Cai, Zhao Lin ^a   Liu, Wen Xiao ^a   Xu, Shi Tong ^a   Xiao, Peng ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Behavioral long term potentiation; Hippocampus; Maze learning task; N nitro l arginine methyl ester

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNTHESIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PERFORANT PATHWAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84867693880     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.08.056     Document Type: Article

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