Fear conditioning and latent inhibition in mice lacking the high affinity subclass of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the brain

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 2779-2784

  Caldarone, Barbara J ^a   Duman, Catharine H ^a   Picciotto, Marina R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Knockout mice; Learning; Nicotinic receptors

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LATENT INHIBITION; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STARTLE REACTION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0033819553     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3908(00)00137-4     Document Type: Article

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