Melamine induced spatial cognitive deficits associated with impairments of hippocampal long-term depression and cholinergic system in Wistar rats

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 100, Issue , 2013, Pages 18-24

  An, Lei ^a   Yang, Zhuo ^a   Zhang, Tao ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cholinergic system; Cognitive flexibility; Long term depression; Melamine; Rats; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; MELAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WISTAR RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSAL LEARNING; TRIAZINES;

EID: 84871822712     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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