Cysteamine impairs the development of the acoustic startle response in rats: Possible role of somatostatin

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 181-184

  Kungel, Martin ^a,b   Koch, Michael ^b   Friauf, Eckhard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle response; Auditory system; Cysteamine; Development; Neuropeptide; Rat; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

MERCAPTAMINE; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030070470     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(95)12244-3     Document Type: Article

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