Rat strain differences in the ability to disrupt sensorimotor gating are limited to the dopaminergic system, specific to prepulse inhibition, and unrelated to changes in startle amplitude or nucleus accumbens dopamine receptor sensitivity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 5644-5653

  Kinney, Gene G ^a,b   Wilkinson, Lynn O ^a,c   Saywell, Kay L ^a,d   Tricklebank, Mark D ^a,e  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

^c PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^d ROCHE PRODUCTS LTD   (United Kingdom)

^e NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

8 OH DPAT; Amphetamine; Apomorphine; Dopamine; Motor behavior; Phencyclidine; Prepulse inhibition; Rats; Schizophrenia; Startle

Indexed keywords

2 DIPROPYLAMINO 8 HYDROXYTETRALIN; AMPHETAMINE; APOMORPHINE; PHENCYCLIDINE;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSORY STIMULATION; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033169096     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-13-05644.1999     Document Type: Article

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