Water maze
Orientation of lizards in a Morris water maze: roles of the sun compass and the parietal eye
... Morris water-maze lizards were painted on their backs with non-toxic colors (red, yellow, blue, orange, white and black; Craft color, Bologna, Italy) for individual marking, placed in groups of three–four ...
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The psychostimulant modafinil facilitates water maze performance and augments synaptic potentiation in dentate gyrus
... In order to evaluate the influence of modafinil on rats’ spatial performance, we have explored in this study the performance of modafinil-treated rats in the water maze (Morris, 1984). The hippocampal ...
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Molecular mechanisms for the destabilization and restabilization of reactivated spatial memory in the Morris water maze
... The formation of spatial memory in the Morris water maze depends on the function of the hippocampus in rodents [26]. Abundant studies using molecular genetics and pharmacology have identified key molecules ...
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Dissociation between Performances in Water Maze and Spontaneous Alternation in BALB/C versus A/J Mice
... Morris Water Maze (MWM) and Spontaneous Alternation (SA) represent two of the most frequently used laboratory tests to respectively address spatial vs non-spatial ...
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Comparison of Effects of Different Antidotes on Tabun-Induced Cognitive Impairment in Rats Using Water Maze
... The water maze consists of a black circular pool (180 cm in diameter, 80 cm high) filled to a depth of 25 cm with water of room temperature (Raveh, ...bellow water surface, so it was not ...
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“MINOCYCLINE IMPROVES MEMORY IN MORRIS WATER MAZE TASK IN INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR STREPTOZOTOCIN INFUSED RATS” by Vivek Kumar Sharma* and Ashok Kumar Goyal, India.
... Morris water escape task can test of the hippocampus in learning and memory and is widely were used to assess learning and memory particularly inneurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease 21 ...Morris ...
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Detailed classification of swimming paths in the Morris Water Maze: multiple strategies within one trial
... Morris Water Maze is a widely used task in studies of spatial learning with ...Morris Water Maze include the escape latency, and the cumulative distance to the ...
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Morris water maze test on neuroprotective effects of ethanolic extract of oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) against neurotoxicity of mercury chloride in albino rats (Rattus norvegicus)
... (morris water maze test), this was conducted in order to know the extent of spatial memory impairments caused by mercury toxicity, and also to ascertain the neuroprotective effects of the mushroom against ...
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Scotopic and Photopic Visual Thresholds and Spatial and Temporal Discrimination Evaluated by Behavior of Mice in a Water Maze †
... Video displays precisely control the grating contrast and spatial frequencies; 3 Innate responses, head and body movements, to moving gratings also can be measured precisely 10,15; and 4[r] ...
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Involvement of cAMP-guanine nucleotide exchange factor II in hippocampal long-term depression and behavioral flexibility
... Morris water maze task, and IntelliCage test [13, ...Morris water maze task we also found that there was no difference in performance during training from day 1 to day 14 ...
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Acute Effects of Ecstasy on Memory Are more Extensive than Chronic Effects
... and placed temporarily into its home cage. Two minutes later, the animal was retested in the same way as in the previous trials; if the rat did not enter the dark compart- ment during 300 s, a successful acquisition of ...
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Effect of XingPiJieYu decoction on spatial learning and memory and cAMP PKA CREB BDNF pathway in rat model of depression through chronic unpredictable stress
... Morris water maze has been widely used all over the world to detecting spatial learning memory capabil- ity [45], to objectively reflect their cognitive ...under water by utilizing the indications at ...
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P. Latha*, Ashok kumar C.K., Vandana K.R., K. Yugandhar, Vishnupriya C, C. Pavan kumar, Gowthami C
... The results of this study confirmed that Ptx and Lcar protect rats from ECT induced retrograde amnesia. This protection was evident from, the significant improvement in Morris water maze task, Passive ...
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THE EFFECT OF MINOCYCLINE ON OXIDATIVE STRESS AND MEMORY DEFICITS IN AGED RATS
... Morris water maze task in aged rats: The latencies to reach the submerged platform decreased gradually in experimental animals of all the groups during 4 days of training in Morris water maze ...
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Cognitive and behavioral evaluation of nutritional interventions in rodent models of brain aging and dementia
... Morris water maze: rodent learns to find submerged escape platform over time (black indicates escape platform); (B) Barnes maze: rodent learns to find escape box over time (black indicates escape ...
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Original Article Modulatory effects of GABA R on cognitive function of epileptic rats
... Passive avoidance performance test was performed after Morris water-maze test. Each rat was habituated to the dark compartment of the apparatus for 2 min. Subsequently, rats were placed into an illuminated ...
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Neuroprotective effect of nicotine and simvastatin on cerebral ischemia induced cognitive impairment
... Cerebral ischemia is a condition in which there is insufficient blood flow to the brain to meet metabolic demand. This vascular obstruction and the subsequent decrease in the cerebral blood flow results in immediate drop ...
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Evaluation of Green Tea for Its Nootropic Activity
... The study demonstrates the effectiveness of green tea extract in improving passive avoidance acquisition and memory retention in mice [14]. Passive avoidance behavior is based on negative reinforcement and is used to ...
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Tanshinone I alleviates motor and cognitive impairments via suppressing oxidative stress in the neonatal rats after hypoxic-ischemic brain damage
... described previously [29, 30]. In brief, rats were allowed to adapt to the water maze, which consists of a circular pool (180-cm diameter, 60-cm at the side), for 60 s 24 h before the first spatial learning ...
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Terminalia chebula extract prevents scopolamine induced amnesia via cholinergic modulation and anti oxidative effects in mice
... Scopolamine is a muscarinic ACh receptor antagonist that can cause learning and memory deficits by disrupt- ing cholinergic neurotransmission; this compound has been used to induce amnesia in experimental murine models ...
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