Non-selective attention and nitric oxide in putative animal models of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 123-133

  Aspide, Raffaele ^a   Gironi Carnevale, Ugo A ^a   Sergeant, Joseph A ^b   Sadile, Adolfo G ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal models; Attention processes; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; L NAME; Naples High Excitability Line; Naples low excitability line; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase; Rearing duration; Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat; Wistar Kyoto normotensive rat

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HYPERACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITORS; LEARNING; MALE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY;

EID: 0032168943     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)00217-9     Document Type: Article

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