Inhibition by Diazepam of the Effect of Additional Training and of Extinction on the Retention of Shuttle Avoidance Behavior in Rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 202-205

  Pereira, Maria E ^a   Rosat, Renata ^a   Huang, Chao Hui ^a   Godoy, Maria Gabriela C ^a   Izquierdo, Ivan ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT;

ANIMAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DIAZEPAM; FEMALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0024550594     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.103.1.202     Document Type: Article

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