Discrepant findings of clozapine effects on prepulse inhibition of startle: Is it the route or the rat?

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 50-56

  Swerdlow, Neal R ^a   Varty, Geoffrey B ^a   Geyer, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antipsycyotic; Apomorphine; Clozapine; Prepulse inhibition; Startle reflex

Indexed keywords

APOMORPHINE; CLOZAPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SENSITIVITY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; APOMORPHINE; CLOZAPINE; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0031906673     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-133X(97)00110-3     Document Type: Article

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