Bilateral tetrodotoxin blockade of the rat vestibular nuclei substitutes the natural unconditioned stimulus in taste aversion learning

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 279, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 161-164

  Ballesteros, Maria Angeles ^a   Gallo, Milagros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Rat; Taste aversion learning; Tetrodotoxin; Vestibular nuclei

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULATION; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE PREFERENCE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; MALE; MOTION SICKNESS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TASTE; TETRODOTOXIN; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 0033967401     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00977-5     Document Type: Article

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