Effects of scopolamine and l-NAME on rats' performance in the object location test

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 294-298

  Pitsikas, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

l NAME; Object location; Rat; Scopolamine; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

METHYLSCOPOLAMINE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SPATIAL MEMORY; TRAINING; TREATMENT INDICATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MEMORY; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SCOPOLAMINE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33947613101     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.02.038     Document Type: Article

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