Dopamine and acetylcholine elevation on lever-press acquisition in rat prefrontal cortex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-36

  Izaki, Yoshinori ^a   Hori, Koji ^a   Nomura, Masahiko ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Acquisition; Dopamine; Medial prefrontal cortex; Microdialysis; Operant; Rat

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DIALYSIS SOLUTIONS; DOPAMINE; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032509325     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00841-6     Document Type: Article

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