Effect of acute subcutaneous nicotine on prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle reflex in healthy male non-smokers

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 389-395

  Kumari, Veena ^a   Cotter, Paul A ^a   Checkley, Stuart A ^a   Gray, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle reflex; Non smokers; Prepulse inhibition; Subcutaneous nicotine

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; PLACEBO;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STARTLE REFLEX; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADULT; AFFECT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; REFLEX, ACOUSTIC; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0030759187     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002130050360     Document Type: Article

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