Inactivation of medial prefrontal cortex or acute stress impairs odor span in rats

Learning and Memory

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 665-669

  Davies, Don A ^a   Molder, Joel J ^a   Greba, Quentin ^a   Howland, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; ODOR SPAN TASK; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MUSCIMOL; ODORS; OLFACTION DISORDERS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; REWARD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84889689259     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.032243.113     Document Type: Article

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