Assessing the emergence and reliability of cognitive decline over the life span in Fisher 344 rats using the spatial water maze

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Guidi, Michael ^a   Kumar, Ashok ^a   Rani, Asha ^a   Foster, Thomas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Episodic memory; F344 rats; Hippocampus; Learning and memory; Reference memory; Spatial water maze

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EPISODIC MEMORY; LEARNING; LIFESPAN; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; RELIABILITY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL WATER MAZE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 84895822241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00002     Document Type: Article

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