Physostigmine enhances performance on an odor mixture discrimination test

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 65, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 801-804

  Doty, Richard L ^a   Bagla, Ritu ^a   Kim, Nahma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Odor discrimination; Olfaction; Physostigmine sulfate; Psychophysics; Rat

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ACETYLCHOLINE; BUTANOL; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PHYSOSTIGMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032448112     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(98)00238-8     Document Type: Article

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