Effect of harmane, an endogenous β-carboline, on learning and memory in rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 666-671

  Celikyurt, Ipek Komsuoglu ^a   Utkan, Tijen ^a   Gocmez, Semil Selcen ^a,b   Hudson, Alan ^c   Aricioglu, Feyza ^d  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NAMIK KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Harmane; Learning; Memory; Passive avoidance; Rats; Three panel runway

Indexed keywords

HARMAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CARBOLINES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HARMINE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84870291381     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: 18735177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2012.10.011     Document Type: Article

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