Gonadal hormones modulate the potency of the disruptive effects of donepezil in male rats responding under a nonspatial operant learning and performance task

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 121-134

  Leonard, Stuart T ^a   Hearn, John K ^a   Catling, Andrew D ^a   Winsauer, Peter J ^a  

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

Author keywords

Donepezil (Aricept); Estradiol; Learning and memory; Repeated acquisition; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; DONEPEZIL; ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG POTENCY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ESTRADIOL; GONADAL HORMONES; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; INDANS; MALE; PIPERIDINES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 77949798702     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e328337be3a     Document Type: Article

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