Scopolamine administered before and after training impairs both contextual and auditory-cue fear conditioning

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 73-81

  Rudy, Jerry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLSCOPOLAMINE; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; DOSE RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0029947514     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1996.0008     Document Type: Article

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