Scopolamine and Pavlovian Fear Conditioning in Rats: Dose-Effect Analysis

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 731-744

  Anagnostaras, Stephan G ^a   Maren, Stephen ^b   Sage, Jennifer R ^a   Goodrich, Stacy ^a   Fanselow, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity; Analgesia; Consolidation; Freezing; Learning; Muscarinic cholinergic; Theta

Indexed keywords

METHYLSCOPOLAMINE; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THETA RHYTHM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; N-METHYLSCOPOLAMINE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SCOPOLAMINE;

EID: 0032761149     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-133X(99)00083-4     Document Type: Article

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