Effects of acute ethanol or amphetamine administration on the acoustic startle response and prepulse inhibition in adolescent and adult rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 579-586

  Brunell, Steven Craig ^a   Spear, Linda Patia ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle response; Adolescence; Amphetamine; Development; Ethanol; Prepulse inhibition; Rats

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMPHETAMINE; DEXAMPHETAMINE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ACOUSTICS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEDATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

AGE FACTORS; AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; NOISE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 33744950544     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-006-0380-9     Document Type: Article

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