Norepinephrine and associative conditioning in the neonatal rat somatosensory system

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 261-264

  Landers, M S ^a   Sullivan, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical whisker barrel; Locus coeruleus; Ontogeny of memory; Somatosensory system

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ISOPRENALINE; NORADRENALIN; PROPRANOLOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEMALE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TACTILE STIMULATION; VIBRISSA;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; ELECTROSHOCK; ISOPROTERENOL; NOREPINEPHRINE; PROPRANOLOL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; VIBRISSAE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033553364     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(99)00026-7     Document Type: Article

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