Bidirectional effects of benzodiazepine binding site ligands in the passive avoidance task: Differential antagonism by flumazenil and β-CCt

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 293-300

  Savić, Miroslav M ^a   Obradović, Dragan I ^b   Ugrešić, Nenad D ^a   Cook, James M ^c   Yin, Wenyuan ^c   Bokonjić, Dubravko R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

DMCM; Flumazenil; GABAA1 receptor; Memory; Midazolam; Passive avoidance; Rat; Zolpidem; CCt

Indexed keywords

4 ETHYL 6,7 DIMETHOXY BETA CARBOLINE 3 CARBOXYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; BENZODIAZEPINE; BETA CARBOLINE 3 CARBOXYLIC ACID TERT BUTYL ESTER; FLUMAZENIL; MIDAZOLAM; ZOLPIDEM;

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 13444249566     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.09.011     Document Type: Article

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