Effect of intermittent exposure to ethanol and MDMA during adolescence on learning and memory in adult mice

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Antonio Vidal-Infer¹  Maria A Aguilar¹  Jose Miñarro¹  Marta Rodríguez-Arias¹ 

[1] Unidad de Investigación Psicobiología de las Drogodependencias, Departamento de Psicobiología, Facultad de Psicología, Universitat de Valencia, Avda. Blasco Ibáñez 21, 46010, Valencia, Spain

关键词: Memory;    Learning;    Hebb Williams maze;    MDMA;    Ethanol;   

Others  :  797505
DOI  :  10.1186/1744-9081-8-32

 received in 2011-12-20, accepted in 2012-05-28,  发布年份 2012

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2012 Vidal-Infer et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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