Cholinergic contributions to supramodal attentional processes in rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2264-2275

  Ljubojevic, Vladimir ^a   Luu, Paul ^a,b   De Rosa, Eve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

192 IgG saporin; Acetylcholine; Attention; Olfactory; Visual

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CELL COUNTING; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DENSITOMETRY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

192 IGG-SAPORIN; ACETYLCHOLINE; ATTENTION; OLFACTORY; VISUAL;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84893464850     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1024-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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