Contrasting effects of bromocriptine on learning of a partially baited radial arm maze task in the presence and absence of restraint stress

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 363-374

  Srikumar, B N ^a,b   Raju, T R ^a   Shankaranarayana Rao, B S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bromocriptine; D2 receptor; Dopamine; Dose dependency; Frontal cortex; Hippocampus; Radial arm maze; Reference memory; Restraint stress; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BROMOCRIPTINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 34447300457     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-007-0801-4     Document Type: Article

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