Spatial discrimination deficits by excitotoxic lesions in the Morris water escape task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 269-276

  Spowart Manning, L ^a,b   Van Der Staay, F J ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cholinesterase inhibitors; Entorhinal cortex lesions; Spatial discrimination task

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; DONEPEZIL; IBOTENIC ACID; METRIFONATE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; ESCAPE REACTION; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE PERCEPTION; TRICHLORFON;

EID: 9644279663     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.05.031     Document Type: Article

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