Persistently exaggerated startle responses in rats treated with pyridostigmine bromide

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 287, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1020-1028

  Servatius, Richard J ^a  

^a New Jersey Health Care System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CHOLINESTERASE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; PYRIDOSTIGMINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; TIME; WISTAR KYOTO RAT; ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SENSITIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS;

ANIMALS; BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PAIN THRESHOLD; PARASYMPATHOMIMETICS; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PYRIDOSTIGMINE BROMIDE; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STARTLE REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032254368     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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