The Suppression of Behaviour in Rats by Previous Experience and Electric Shock and Its Antagonism by Atropine

Overview

Journal Psychopharmacologia

Specialty Pharmacology

Date 1975 Apr 30

PMID 1153627

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Authors

K C Phillips

G Lowe

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Abstract

Behavioural suppression was induced in rats by either previous experience alone or by a combination of previous experience and electric footshock. The effects of atropine (10 mg/kg) were compared with saline on a number of behavioural parameters suppressed by the above treatments. Atropine antagonised habituation and shock-induced suppression, which suggests that behavioural suppression however induced, may depend upon a common neuropharmacological mechanism.

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