Spatial Memory and Long-Term Object Recognition Are Impaired by Circadian Arrhythmia and Restored by the GABAAAntagonist Pentylenetetrazole

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Ruby, Norman F ^a   Fernandez, Fabian ^a   Garrett, Alex ^a   Klima, Jessy ^a   Zhang, Pei ^a   Sapolsky, Robert ^a   Heller, H Craig ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENTETRAZOLE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN ARRHYTHMIA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION; PHODOPUS; PHODOPUSSUNGORUS; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CHRONOBIOLOGY DISORDERS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GABA ANTAGONISTS; LIGHT; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; PHODOPUS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84883219325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072433     Document Type: Article

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