Changes of hippocampal beta-alanine and citrulline levels are paralleling early and late phase of retrieval in the Morris Water Maze

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 249, Issue , 2013, Pages 104-108

  Sase, Ajinkya ^a   Dahanayaka, Sudath ^b   Höger, Harald ^a   Wu, Guoyao ^b   Lubec, Gert ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Beta alanine; Brain; Citrulline; Rat; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

BETA ALANINE; CITRULLINE; CYSTEINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; ORNITHINE; TAURINE; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID BRAIN LEVEL; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BETA-ALANINE; CITRULLINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84877911598     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.04.033     Document Type: Article

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