Cholinergic modulation of olfactory pattern separation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 545, Issue , 2013, Pages 50-53

  Chapuis, Julie ^a,b   Wilson, Donald A ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Odor discrimination; Odor memory; Pattern separation; Perceptual learning; Piriform cortex

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; METHYLSCOPOLAMINE; OXOTREMORINE; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY PATTERN SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SMELL;

EID: 84878603180     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.04.015     Document Type: Article

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