Comparison of Long-Evans and Wistar rats in sensitivity to central cholinergic blockade with scopolamine in two spatial tasks: An active place avoidance and the Morris water maze

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 120, Issue , 2013, Pages 11-18

  Entlerova, Marie ^a   Lobellova, Veronika ^a   Hatalova, Hana ^a   Zemanova, Anna ^a   Vales, Karel ^a   Stuchlik, Ales ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Behavioral pharmacology; Inter strain differences; Learning; Long Evans; Scopolamine; Spatial navigation; Wistar

Indexed keywords

SCOPOLAMINE BROMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MAZE TEST; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OUTBRED STRAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WISTAR RAT;

EID: 84880641898     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2013.06.024     Document Type: Article

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