Subchronic cocaine produces training paradigm-dependent learning deficits in laboratory rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 545-553

  Quirk, Phillip L ^a,b   Richards, Ralph W ^a   Avery, David D ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Hippocampus; Learning; Long term potentiation; Memory; Rat; Spatial navigation; Water maze

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; CUES; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LEARNING DISORDERS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0035016262     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(01)00462-2     Document Type: Article

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