Nicotinic modulation of auditory attentional shift in the rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 273-279

  Brown, Dewey C ^a   Nichols, Justin A ^a   Thomas, Feba ^a   Dinh, Lu ^a   Atzori, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptability; Atropine; Auditory; Cholinergic hypothesis; Muscarinic

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; NICOTINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATROPINE; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; MALE; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77952323360     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.02.046     Document Type: Article

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