A gradual score to evaluate the climbing behaviour elicited by apomorphine in mice

✍ Scribed by H. Marcais; P. Protais; J. Costentin; J. C. Schwartz

• Book ID: 104771521
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 179 KB
• Volume: 56
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0033-3158
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00431856

✦ Synopsis

Mice treated with apomorphine tend to adopt a verticaI position in a stereotyped manner. A quantaI evaluation of this behaviour, taking into account its fi'equency and duration, leads to a biphasic doseresponse curve that reveals opposite actions of the dopamine agonist.