Age- and dose-dependent facilitation of associative eyeblink conditioning by D-cycloserine in rabbits

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1303-1312

  Thompson, Lucien T ^a   Disterhoft, John F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSERINE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE RESPONSE; EYELID REFLEX; FACILITATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING, EYELID; CYCLOSERINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FEMALE; GLYCINE; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 0031435599     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.6.1303     Document Type: Article

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