Nicotine Enhances Contextual Fear Conditioning and Ameliorates Ethanol-Induced Deficits in Contextual Fear Conditioning

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1276-1282

  Gould, Thomas J ^a   Lommock, Joel A ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; MECAMYLAMINE; NICOTINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; FEAR; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ETHANOL; FEAR; MALE; MECAMYLAMINE; MENTAL RECALL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; NICOTINIC ANTAGONISTS;

EID: 0346365428     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.6.1276     Document Type: Article

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