Free radicals and taste aversion learning in the rat: Nitric oxide, radiation and dopamine

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 691-707

  Rabin, Bernard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral toxicity; Conditioned taste aversion; Dopamine; Nitric oxide; Preexposure; Radiation

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE; FREE RADICAL; HALOPERIDOL; LITHIUM; N TERT BUTYL ALPHA PHENYLNITRONE; N(G) NITROARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RADIATION; RAT; TASTE AVERSION;

EID: 0030152927     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0278-5846(96)00041-3     Document Type: Article

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