Yeast ribonucleic acid: Analysis of effects on pole-climb avoidance behavior

✍ Scribed by Arnold B. Davidson; Leonard Cook

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 512 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0033-3158
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00404851

✦ Synopsis

Yeast RNA treatment increases rate of acquisition of pole-climb avoidance behavior in rats and prolongs retention of this behavior under extinction conditions. These effects of yeast RNA treatment appear to be primarily related to its interaction with components of the behavior which are present even before the emission of the first pole-climb response. Differences were also found between yeast RNA-treated rats and control rats in the relationship of performance during acquisition to performance under extinction conditions. These differences suggest that, in addition to its effects before the emission of the first pole-climb response, yeast RNA also interacts with behavior throughout the conditioning procedure.