Cholinergic effects on fear conditioning I: The degraded contingency effect is disrupted by atropine but reinstated by physostigmine

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 524-532

  Carnicella, Sebastien ^a   Pain, Laure ^a   Oberling, Philippe ^b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Atropine; Contingency learning; Fear Conditioning; Interactive context; Physostigmine; Rats

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; PHYSOSTIGMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COMPETITION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEAR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATROPINE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MEMORY; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; PARASYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; PHYSOSTIGMINE; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 16844362707     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-005-2176-8     Document Type: Article

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