Cholinergic modulation of trace conditioning trained in serial compound: A developmental analysis

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 311-321

  Hunt, Pamela S ^a   Barnet, Robert C ^a   Shea, Meghan E ^a   Baker, Eric M ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Muscarinic; Rat; Scopolamine

Indexed keywords

MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SCOPOLAMINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SHOCK; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEAR; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCOPOLAMINE; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 33748919479     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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