Chronic nicotic agonist and antagonist effects on T-maze alternation

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 863-866

  Levin, Edward D ^a   Christopher, Nadine C ^a   Briggs, Sandra J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic; Mecamylamine; Memory; Nicotine; Nicotinic; T maze

Indexed keywords

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

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TECHNIQUE; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; MAZE TEST; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MAZE LEARNING; MECAMYLAMINE; NICOTINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030609895     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)00609-9     Document Type: Article

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