Modulation of spatial alternation and anxiety by septal scopolamine systemic diazepam in mice

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 733-738

  Belotti, Muriel ^a   Cagniard, Barbara ^a   Mano, Marie Pierre ^a   Galey, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Diazepam; Scopolamine; Septo hippocampal cholinergic pathway; Septum; Spatial working memory

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANXIETY; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DIAZEPAM; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; SCOPOLAMINE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031877912     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(98)00035-5     Document Type: Article

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