Characterisation of the effects of nicotine in the five-choice serial reaction time task in rats: Antagonist studies

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 293-305

  Blondel, Anne ^a   Sanger, David J ^a   Moser, Paul C ^a  

^a SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

Attention; Dihydro erythroidine; Methyllycaconitine; Nicotinic receptor; Serial reaction time

Indexed keywords

DIHYDRO BETA ERYTHROIDINE; HEXAMETHONIUM; MECAMYLAMINE; METHYLLYCACONITINE; NICOTINE TARTRATE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SMOKING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACONITINE; ANIMALS; DIHYDRO-BETA-ERYTHROIDINE; MALE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0034019113     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002130000378     Document Type: Article

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