Picrotoxin in the medial prefrontal cortex impairs sensorimotor gating in rats: Reversal by haloperidol

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 347-354

  Japha, Kirsten ^a   Koch, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle response; GABA; Haloperidol; Hippocampus; Picrotoxin; Prefrontal cortex; Prepulse inhibition; Schizophrenia; Sensorimotor gating

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; HALOPERIDOL; PICROTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STARTLE REFLEX;

ANIMALS; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GABA ANTAGONISTS; HALOPERIDOL; MALE; PICROTOXIN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0033022993     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002130051017     Document Type: Article

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