The effects of muscarinic cholinergic receptor blockade in the rat anterior cingulate and prelimbic/infralimbic cortices on spatial working memory

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 241-257

  Ragozzino, Michael E ^a   Kesner, Raymond P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; REINFORCEMENT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0032078666     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1998.3823     Document Type: Article

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