Effects of oxotremorine and physostigmine on the inhibitory avoidance impairment produced by amitriptyline in male and female mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 367-371

  Monleón, Santiago ^a   Urquiza, Adoración ^a   Vinader Caerols, Concepción ^a   Parra, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amitriptyline; Antidepressants; Cholinergic agonists; Inhibitory avoidance; Mice; Oxotremorine; Physostigmine; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; OXOTREMORINE; PHYSOSTIGMINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; FEMALE; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; OXOTREMORINE; PHYSOSTIGMINE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349761241     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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