Scopolamine is used as a standard/reference drug for inducing cognitive deficits in healthy humans and animals. Effects are often interpreted in terms of a role of acetylcholine in mnemonic and/or attentional processes. In this paper an overview is given of the effects of scopolamine on animal behav
A comparison of scopolamine and biperiden as a rodent model for cholinergic cognitive impairment
β Scribed by Inge Klinkenberg; Arjan Blokland
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 521 KB
- Volume
- 215
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0033-3158
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