Memory-impairing effects of local anesthetics in an elevated plus-maze test in mice

Post-training intracerebroventricular administration of procaine (20 µg/µl) and dimethocaine (10 or 20 µg/µl), local anesthetics of the ester class, prolonged the latency (s) in the retention test of male and female 3-month-old Swiss albino mice (25-35 g body weight; N = 140) in the elevated plus-ma...

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Main Authors: S.L. Blatt, R.N. Takahashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica 1998-04-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X1998000400013