Effects of cold exposure on behavioral and electrophysiological parameters related with hippocampal function in rats

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Elmarzouki, Hajar ^a   Aboussaleh, Youssef ^a   Bitiktas, Soner ^b   Suer, Cem ^b   Artis, A Seda ^c   Dolu, Nazan ^b   Ahami, Ahmed ^a  

^a IBN TOFAIL UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^c Istanbul Medeniyet University School of Medicine   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Long term potentiation (LTP); Morris water maze test (MWM); Rat; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906853594     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00253     Document Type: Article

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