Galanin receptor antagonist M40 blocks galanin-induced choice accuracy deficits on a delayed-nonmatching-to-position task

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1025-1032

  McDonald, Michael P ^a   Crawley, Jacqueline N ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALANIN; GALANIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GALANIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MENTAL RECALL; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, GALANIN; RECEPTORS, GASTROINTESTINAL HORMONE;

EID: 0029858270     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.5.1025     Document Type: Article

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