Effects of stimulation or blockade of central nicotinic-cholinergic receptors on performance of a novel version of the rat stimulus discrimination task

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 172-181

  Terry Jr , A V ^a   Buccafusco, J J ^a,b   Jackson, W J ^a   Zagrodnik, S ^a   Evans Martin, F F ^a   Decker, M W ^c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholinergic; Cognition; Lobeline; Memory; Nicotine; Rat; Stimulus discrimination task

Indexed keywords

LOBELINE; MECAMYLAMINE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGENT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; LOBELINE; MALE; MECAMYLAMINE; NICOTINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030068568     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02246174     Document Type: Article

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