Effects of nicotine and stress on startle amplitude and sensory gating depend on rat strain and sex

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 273-284

  Faraday, Martha M ^a   O'Donoghue, Virginia A ^a   Grunberg, Neil E ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

ASR; Females; Immobilization; Long Evans; Males; Nicotine; PPI; Sex differences; Sprague Dawley; Strain differences

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STARTLE REFLEX; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRESS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NICOTINE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARTLE REACTION; STRESS;

EID: 0032955282     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(98)00159-2     Document Type: Article

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