Cognition-enhancing drugs increase stimulated hippocampal θ rhythm amplitude in the urethane-anesthetized rat

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 291, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 99-106

  Kinney, Gene G ^a   Patino, Patricia ^a   Mermet Bouvier, Yvan ^b   Starrett Jr , John E ^b   Gribkoff, Valentin K ^a  

^a BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

^b Division of Central Chemistry   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APAMIN; DIZOCILPINE; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; DONEPEZIL; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PIRACETAM; SCOPOLAMINE; URETHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN STEM; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETICULAR FORMATION; THETA RHYTHM;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; THETA RHYTHM; URETHANE;

EID: 0032859193     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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