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García-Moreno,L.M.; Conejo,N.M.; González-Pardo,H.; Aller,M.A.; Nava,M.P.; Arias,J.; Arias,J.L.. |
The serious neuropsychological repercussions of hepatic encephalopathy have led to the creation of several experimental models in order to better understand the pathogenesis of the disease. In the present investigation, two possible causes of hepatic encephalopathy, cholestasis and portal hypertension, were chosen to study the behavioral impairments caused by the disease using an object recognition task. This working memory test is based on a paradigm of spontaneous delayed non-matching to sample and was performed 60 days after surgery. Male Wistar rats (225-250 g) were divided into three groups: two experimental groups, microsurgical cholestasis (N = 20) and extrahepatic portal hypertension (N = 20), and a control group (N = 20). A mild alteration of the... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Cholestasis; Portal hypertension; Encephalopathy; Behavior; Recognition memory test. |
Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2005000100019 |
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