Effects of acute systemic 3-nitropropionic acid administration on rat activity and acoustic startle

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 280, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 183-186

  Seaman, Ronald L ^a  

^a US Army Med Res Detachment PO   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Nitropropionic acid; Acoustic startle; Behavior; Locomotor activity; Neurodegeneration; Prepulse inhibition

Indexed keywords

3 NITROPROPIONIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEUROTOXINS; NITRO COMPOUNDS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROPIONIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0033954530     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)00790-4     Document Type: Article

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