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The effect of (+/-)-CP-101606, an NMDA receptor NR2B subunit ...
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The effect of (+/-)-CP-101606, an NMDA receptor NR2B subunit ...
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Age-dependent sexual dimorphism in cognition and stress response ...
We find that male and female 3xTg-AD mice show comparable impairments on Morris water maze (MWM) and inhibitory avoidance (IA) at 4 months. Shortly thereafter, however, the cognitive performance varies among the sexes

Applications of the Morris water maze in the study of learning and ...
The Morris water maze (MWM) was described 20 years ago as a device to investigate spatial learning and memory in laboratory rats. ...

Emergence of an egocentric cue guiding and allocentric inferring ...
The Morris water maze is a simple and popular task often used to assess spatial navigation. But how animals navigate toward and retain information regarding

 

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Faster learning of the Morris water maze by R451C mice is remarkable. The R451C mutation increased the frequency of inhibitory

Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase 2 (ERK2) Knockdown Mice Show ...
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The mice also showed learning deficit in the water maze and the eight-arm radial maze. The ERK1 expression level of the knockdown mice was comparable

Long-term effects of prior cocaine exposure on Morris water maze ...
Three months later, rats were trained for 6 sessions on a Morris water maze protocol adapted from Gallagher, Burwell, and Burchinal [Gallagher, M., Burwell

Neuropsychopharmacology - Figures and tables for article: Parallel ...
DAT-KO mice exhibit normal spatial reference memory,

Isofluane effects on memory and learning in rats
By David Smith
Spatial memory and learning of the fetal exposed pups were examined with the Morris Water Maze at juvenile and adult ages. Rat fetal exposure to isoflurane at pregnancy day 21 through maternal anesthesia significantly decreased ...
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Effect of acetaminophen, a cyclooxygenase inhibitor, on Morris ...
By Ishida, T., Sato, T., Irifune, M., Tanaka,...
To examine the participation of COX-3 in memory formation, water maze performance was studied in mice treated with AAP, PHE or other COX inhibitors. Mice received intraperitoneal injections of drugs immediately after each training ...
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The Brain on Glucose-Redux
By Dr. Larry McCleary...They subsequently documented the death of insulin producing neurons and the delayed development of dementia as determined by performance on the Morris Water Maze test that was administered to the rodents. Death and degeneration of ...

Autistic Mice Show Poor Social Skills, Increased Intelligence
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The engineered mice were significantly better than normal, though, at learning a water maze, in which they had to find and learn the location of an ...
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Acute exposure to a 50 Hz magnetic field impairs consolidation of ...
This study was planned to evaluate the effect of an exposure to magnetic fields on consolidation and retrieval of hippocampus dependent spatial memory using a water maze. In Experiments 1 and 2, rats were trained in a hidden version ...

Alzheimer in VR By Otte(Otte) (Virtual MWM)
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Estradiol and Corticosterone Independently Impair Spatial ...
Source: Behavioural Brain Research, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 27 August 2007 Snihur, Adrian WK , Hampson, Elizabeth , Cain, Donald Peter.
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Spotlight on Piracetam
The mice were subjected to a water maze test to determine the benefits (if any) of piracetam. All groups performed well and when the platform in

Lurasidone Reverses MK-801-induced Impairment of Learning and ...
Source: Behavioural Brain Research, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 19 August 2007 Enomoto, Takeshi , Ishibashi, Tadashi , Tokuda, Kumiko , Ishiyama, Takeo , Toma, Satoko , ...
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Aluminum, Antimony, Autism and Answers
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Significant cognitive deficits in water-maze learning were observed in the combined aluminum and squalene group... Apoptotic neurons were identified in aluminum-injected animals that showed significantly increased activated caspase-3 .

Neuroprotective effect of ketamine/xylazine on two rat models of ...
In the working memory version of the Morris water maze task, both MPTP- and 6-OHDA-lesioned animals spent nearly 10 s longer to find the hidden platform in the groups where the neurotoxins were infused under thiopental anesthesia, ...


New and Exciting in PLoS Biology
We examined the effect of spatial learning in the water maze on cell birth and death in the rodent hippocampus. We then determined the influence of an inhibitor of cell death on memory abilities and learning-induced changes in cell ...

Aerobic exercises may prevent memory loss in old age

 

UCLA Behavioral Testing Core - Morris Water Maze Task
The Morris Water Maze is the most popular task in behavioral neuroscience. In its most basic form, the water maze assesses spatial learning and memory. ...

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Smart Mice: Web Extra Video
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Mucke and his colleagues found that, as the animals aged, those with two tau gene copies became impaired in their ability to learn the Morris water maze, ...

Prana Biotechnology Presents New Key Findings on PBT2
This observation was reproduced in two genetically distinct mouse models; -- PBT2 sharply improves cognitive performance in the Morris Water Maze for two ...

'Smart' mice teach scientists about learning process, brain disorders
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