Voluntary exercise does not ameliorate spatial learning and memory deficits induced by chronic administration of nandrolone decanoate in rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 158-165

  Tanehkar, Fatemeh ^a   Rashidy Pour, Ali ^a   Vafaei, Abbas Ali ^a   Sameni, Hamid Reza ^a   Haghighi, Saeed ^a   Miladi Gorji, Hossien ^a   Motamedi, Fereshteh ^b   Akhavan, Maziar Mohammad ^b   Bavarsad, Kowsar ^a  

^a SEMNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anabolic androgenic steroids; BDNF; Learning; Memory; Morris water maze; Nandrolone decanoate; Rat; Voluntary exercise

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NANDROLONE DECANOATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; NANDROLONE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RUNNING;

EID: 84871936937     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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