Tat-induced histopathological alterations mediate hippocampus-associated behavioural impairments in rats

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Harricharan, Rivona ^a   Thaver, Veneesha ^a   Russell, Vivienne A ^a   Daniels, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Histopathology; Morris water maze; Novel object recognition test; Tat protein Clade B

Indexed keywords

TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHILIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HIV ASSOCIATED DEMENTIA; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SPATIAL LEARNING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ASTROCYTE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHEMISTRY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INJECTION; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HIV-1; INJECTIONS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TAT GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 84924258168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17449081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12993-014-0047-3     Document Type: Article

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