Ontogeny of the acoustic startle response and sensitization to background noise in the rat.

abstract：:Adult male rats consumed 50-150% more 0.5 M NaCl solution than females did during a 7-hr drinking test when robust salt appetite was elicited by dietary sodium deprivation for 8 days, daily injections of deoxycorticosterone, or adrenalectomy followed by 2 days of sodium deprivation. In contrast, male rats drank much l...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Scheidler MG,Verbalis JG,Stricker EM

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectral sensitivity of the red and the yellow retinal fields of head-fixed pigeons was separately measured for wavelengths between 340 and 640 nm by a behavioral perimetric technique. Within this spectral range the mean spectral sensitivity of both fields was found to be maximal at 584 nm and minimal at the lower...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Remy M,Emmerton J

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ejaculation-induced reward in the male rat was evaluated by the conditioned place-preference paradigm. It was supposed that ejaculation induces a reward state such that it can be conditioned to environmental stimuli. Males were allowed to ejaculate once and were then immediately transferred to a place-preference cage....

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Agmo A,Berenfeld R

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult rats have been phenotyped as high (HRs) or low (LRs) responders to novelty, the former associated with high-risk behaviors. Data indicating that adolescent rodents exhibit increased novelty-seeking relative to adults are equivocal, and phenotypic variations in adolescent novel stimulus reactivity are unknown. To...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Philpot RM,Wecker L

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments examined the effects of infusing an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, d-2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate(d-APV), on taste-potentiated odor conditioning: a form of learning that is dependent on information processing in 2 sensory modalities. In Experiment 1, rats infused with d-APV were impair...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hatfield T,Gallagher M

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Finicky feeding refers to an animal's tendency to become more particular in accepting and choosing food as satiation is approached. We tested the hypothesis that finickiness in the blowfly is related to the balance between internal inhibition, generated by a full crop, and external sensory information, generated by or...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Moss CF,Dethier VG

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses an operant, behavioral model to assess the daily changes in the decay rate of short-term memory, motivation, and motor ability in rats exposed to chronic restraint. Restraint decreased reward-related motivation by 50% without altering memory decay rate or motor ability. Moreover, chronic restraint impa...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kleen JK,Sitomer MT,Killeen PR,Conrad CD

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lurcher mutant (+/Lc) mice exhibit a massive loss of neurons in the cerebellar cortex and in the inferior olivary nucleus while deep cerebellar nuclei are essentially intact. To discriminate the respective participation of the cerebellar cortex and deep structures in learning and memory, the authors subjected 3- to 6-...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Caston J,Vasseur F,Delhaye-Bouchaud N,Mariani J

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the sensorimotor skills of a spontaneous mouse mutant, Purkinje cell degeneration (PCD), marked by selective cerebellar cortical atrophy on a treadmill activated at 1 of 2 speeds and at 1 of 3 slopes, requiring forward movements to avoid footshocks. There was no difference in ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Le Marec N,Lalonde R

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult rats that were isolated from the mother and nest for 1 hr per day from Postnatal Day 2 to 9 were studied. Controls consisted of handled littermates as well as separate litters that were never handled. As adults, animals were given either a pharmacological challenge (1.0 or 2.0 mg/kg amphetamine) or an environmen...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Kehoe P,Shoemaker WJ,Triano L,Callahan M,Rappolt G

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used the tail-flick response of rats to study the role of opioid receptors in illness-induced hyperalgesia. An intraperitoneal injection of lithium chloride (LiCl) produced hyperalgesia that was blocked in a dose-dependent manner by subcutaneous injection of the opioid antagonist naloxone. Neither hyperalgesia nor ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： McNally GP,Johnston IN,Westbrook RF

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Available evidence indicates that common genes influence alcohol and tobacco abuse in humans. The studies reported here used mouse models to evaluate the hypothesis that genetically determined variability in the alpha4beta2* nicotinic receptor modulates genetically determined variability in the intake of both nicotine...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Butt CM,King NM,Hutton SR,Collins AC,Stitzel JA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research conducted in monkeys and rats has established that the perirhinal cortex is critically involved in object- or stimulus-recognition memory, whereas other research suggests this region may contribute to memory for object discriminations. These findings do not rule out the possibility that the perirhina...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Wiig KA,Burwell RD

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of memory retrieval after weak learning (WL), during either the short- or intermediate-term stages of memory in day-old chickens, resulted in the strengthening of the memory to levels normally associated with strong learning. Administration of the calcium channel antagonist lanthanum chloride, the glutamate...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Summers MJ,Crowe SF,Ng KT

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study examined possible interactions between genetic factors and prolonged drug access by testing the Fischer (F344), Lewis (LEW), and Wistar rat strains in a prolonged access cocaine self-administration (SA) procedure. Before prolonged access, the strains did not differ in breakpoints for food or cocaine ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Freeman KB,Kearns DN,Kohut SJ,Riley AL

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A learning event can be dissociated into 3 components: acquisition, storage, and recall. When the laboratory wild-type strain of Caenorhabditis elegans (N2 strain) is exposed to benzaldehyde in the absence of food, the worms display a reduction of their attractive response to this volatile odorant. This results from t...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Atkinson-Leadbeater K,Nuttley WM,van der Kooy D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal testosterone exposure may be protective against disordered eating. However, prior studies have produced mixed results. Developmental differences in prenatal testosterone's protective effects on disordered eating may explain these discrepancies. Indeed, studies have differed in the age of participants assessed...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Culbert KM,Breedlove SM,Sisk CL,Keel PK,Neale MC,Boker SM,Burt SA,Klump KL

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the extent to which continued drug discrimination training during chronic drug treatment affects the development of tolerance. Rats were trained to discriminate distilled water from 0.75 mg/kg amphetamine in a two-lever drug discrimination task. Two groups were then given...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Caul WF,Burgin KL,Barrett RJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unilateral microinjection of morphine into the amygdala impaired fear conditioning to both a conditioned stimulus (CS) paired with shock and the context where shock occurred, whereas a microinjection of morphine into the nucleus accumbens (NA) spared fear conditioning to the CS but impaired, in a dose-dependent and ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Westbrook RF,Good AJ,Kiernan MJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These experiments tested whether nucleus accumbens muscarinic or nicotinic acetylcholine receptor activation is required for rats to learn to lever press for sucrose. Muscarinic blockade with scopolamine (1.0 microg/side or 10.0 microg/side), but not nicotinic antagonism with mecamylamine (10.0 microg/side), inhibited...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Pratt WE,Kelley AE

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that the amygdaloid central nucleus (ACE) may contribute significantly to Pavlovian fear-conditioned bradycardic responses during the presentation of conditioned emotional stimuli. Because the medial component of the medial geniculate nucleus (MGm) is a major source of input to the region of t...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Supple WF Jr,Kapp BS

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the neural substrates underlying the development of a conditioned place preference (CPP) to morphine (2 mg/kg x 3 pairings) by testing whether lesions of 7 different neural sites block a morphine-induced CPP. Lesions of the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPTg), the periaqueductal gray (PAG), o...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Olmstead MC,Franklin KB

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several experiments were conducted to examine the effects of intracranial injection of opioid peptides and antagonists on learning and memory in the chick. Pretraining injection of [leu5]enkephalin and the selective delta receptor agonist [D-Pen2,L-Pen5]enkephalin (DPLPE) into the intermediate medial hyperstriatum ven...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Patterson TA,Schulteis G,Alvarado MC,Martinez JL Jr,Bennett EL,Rosenzweig MR,Hruby VJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of estrogenic stimulation on diet selection were examined in intact, estrous cycling rats, ovariectomized (OVX) rats, and OVX rats given estradiol benzoate (EB) hormone replacement therapy. In Experiment 1, OVX was associated with the nearly exclusive choice of the more calorically dense diet of a pair of ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bartness TJ,Waldbillig RJ

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat fetuses were exposed to cocaine, lidocaine, or saline on Gestational Day 20 or 21 to provide information about cocaine effects on behavior during prenatal development. Cocaine was administered into the cisterna magna of individual fetal subjects to restrict effects to the CNS. Behavioral effects of cocaine were co...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Simonik DK,Robinson SR,Smotherman WP

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is a potent endogenous stimulator of food intake. In addition to stimulating increased food intake, when paired with a novel-flavored solution, NPY produces an aversion to that flavor. Hence, exogenous NPY elicits 2 seemingly opposing behaviors, increased feeding and the formation of a conditioned...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Madden LJ,Seeley RJ,Woods SC

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effect of postnatal tactile stimulation (TS) on juvenile behavior, adult amphetamine (AMPH) sensitization, and the interaction of TS and AMPH on prefrontal cortical (PFC) thickness and striatum size. Pups received TS by stroking daily with a feather duster from birth till weaning and were t...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Muhammad A,Hossain S,Pellis SM,Kolb B

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transport of wheat germ agglutinin-horseradish peroxidase (WGA-HRP) from olfactory sensory neurons to the olfactory bulb as well as odor detection and discrimination were examined in rats in which each nasal epithelium had been irrigated with 0.1-0.5 ml 5% zinc sulfate. After treatment, rats showed few or no deficits ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Slotnick B,Glover P,Bodyak N

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments were conducted in which adrenalectomized male Sprague-Dawley rats were maintained ad lib on distilled water, 3% saline, and sodium-free food. In Experiment 1, 45 rats were given 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1,000 micrograms/kg/day desoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA) im for 5 days to determine the dose of DO...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dalhouse AD,Langford HG,Walsh D,Barnes T

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors demonstrated the efficacy of enriched housing conditions in promoting the behavioral recovery and neuronal survival following subicular lesion in rats. Chemical lesioning of the ventral subiculum impaired the spatial learning performances in rats. The lesion also induced a significant degree of neurodegene...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Dhanushkodi A,Bindu B,Raju TR,Kutty BM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00