Testosterone potentiates scopolamine-induced disruptions of nonspatial learning in gonadectomized male rats

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 48-57

  Leonard, Stuart T ^a,b   Moerschbaecher, Joseph M ^a   Winsauer, Peter J ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning and memory; Rat; Repeated acquisition; Scopolamine; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

SCOPOLAMINE; TESTOSTERONE;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONADECTOMY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SYNERGISM; MALE; MEMORY; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; ORCHIECTOMY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SCOPOLAMINE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

EID: 33846996384     PISSN: 10641297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1064-1297.15.1.48     Document Type: Article

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