Effects of clonidine in the locus coeruleus on prefrontal- and hippocampal-dependent measures of attention and memory in the rat

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 280-288

  Mair, Robert D ^a   Zhang, Yueping ^a,b   Bailey, Kathleen R ^a   Toupin, Margaret M ^a   Mair, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Clonidine; Hippocampus; Locus coeruleus; Norepinephrine; Prefrontal cortex; Reaction time; Visuospatial; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CLONIDINE; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLONIDINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICROINJECTIONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 27144441406     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-005-2263-x     Document Type: Article

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