Nicotine trained as a negative feature passes the retardation-of- acquisition and summation tests of a conditioned inhibitor

Learning and Memory

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 452-458

  Murray, Jennifer E ^a,b   Walker, Andrew W ^a   Li, Chia ^a   Wells, Nicole R ^a   Penrod, Rachel D ^a   Bevins, Rick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; NALOXONE; NICOTINE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG SCREENING; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NONHUMAN; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WHITE NOISE;

ANIMALS; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GABA MODULATORS; MALE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 79959389095     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.2177411     Document Type: Article

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