The effect of nonspatial water maze pretraining in rats subjected to serotonin depletion and muscarinic receptor antagonism: A detailed behavioural assessment of spatial performance

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 201-211

  Beiko, Jason ^a   Candusso, Lisa ^a   Cain, Donald P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Beam Task; Behaviour; Hippocampus; Learning; Memory; Neocortex; p Chlorophenylalanine; Scopolamine; Spatial Navigation

Indexed keywords

FENCLONINE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SCOPOLAMINE BROMIDE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SEROTONIN RELEASE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; ORIENTATION; RATS; SEROTONIN; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030686601     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)02298-5     Document Type: Article

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