Functional blockade of the parabrachial area by tetrodotoxin disrupts the acquisition of conditioned taste aversion induced by motion-sickness in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 265, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-60

  Gallo, M ^a   Marquez, S L ^a   Ballesteros, M A ^a   Maldonado, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Body rotation; Parabrachial; Rat; Taste aversion learning; Tetrodotoxin; Vestibular stimulation

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN STEM; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MOTION SICKNESS; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROTATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASTE AVERSION; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MALE; MOTION SICKNESS; PONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TASTE; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0033537923     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00209-8     Document Type: Article

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