Detailed behavioral analysis of water maze acquisition under systemic NMDA or muscarinic antagonism: Nonspatial pretraining eliminates spatial learning deficits

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 103-116

  Saucier, Deborah ^a   Hargreaves, Eric L ^a,b   Boon, Francis ^a   Vanderwolf, C H ^a   Cain, Donald Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 4,5 (1,2 CYCLOHEXYL) 7 PHOSPHONOHEPTANOIC ACID; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; OXIDOPAMINE; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030067179     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.1.103     Document Type: Article

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