The effect of intrahippocampal injection of testosterone enanthate (an androgen receptor agonist) and anisomycin (protein synthesis inhibitor) on spatial learning and memory in adult, male rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 263-268

  Naghdi, Nasser ^a   Majlessi, Nahid ^a   Bozorgmehr, Tahereh ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anisomycin; CA1; Hippocampus; MWM; Spatial learning and memory; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANISOMYCIN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANISOMYCIN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DRUG INTERACTIONS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICROINJECTIONS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 9644260612     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.05.032     Document Type: Article

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