Pharmacological dissociation of trace and long-delay fear conditioning in young rats

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 86-92

  Hunt, Pamela S ^a   Richardson, Rick ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cholinergic; Development; Fear conditioning; Freezing; Long delay conditioning; Physostigmine; Scopolamine; Trace conditioning

Indexed keywords

PHYSOSTIGMINE; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSOSTIGMINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCOPOLAMINE; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750523824     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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