Comparison of the effects of acute and subchronic administration of atipamezole on reaction to novelty and active avoidance learning in rats

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Volumn 359, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 194-203

  Haapalinna, Antti ^a   MacDonald, Ewen ^b   Viitamaa, Timo ^a   Salonen, Jarmo S ^a   Sirviö, Jouni ^b   Virtanen, Raimo ^a  

^a ORION CORPORATION   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Atipamezole; Behaviour; Learning; Noradrenaline; Stress; Subchronic treatment; 2 Adrenoceptor antagonism

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ATIPAMEZOLE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; RAT; STRESS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0033042976     PISSN: 00281298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005342     Document Type: Article

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