Tetrodotoxin inactivation of the gustatory cortex disrupts the effect of the N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist ketamine on latent inhibition of conditioned taste aversion in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 61-64

  Gallo, Milagros ^a   Bielavska, Edita ^b   Roldán, Gabriel ^c   Bures, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Conditioned taste aversion; Ketamine; Latent inhibition; Learning; Rat; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SACCHARIN SODIUM; TETRODOTOXIN; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; LATENT INHIBITION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASTE AVERSION;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; KETAMINE; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TASTE; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0032498198     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00897-5     Document Type: Article

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