Acetylcholine release in rat frontal and somatosensory cortex is enhanced during tactile discrimination learning

Psychobiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 18-33

  Butt, Allen E ^a   Testylier, Guy ^b   Dykes, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES INTERNATIONALES SERVIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0030969310     PISSN: 08896313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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