ONTOGENY OF ADRENERGIC AROUSAL AND CHOLINERGIC INHIBITORY MECHANISMS IN RAT

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CAMPBELL, BA
LYTLE, LD
FIBIGER, HC
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[1] Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton
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10.1126/science.166.3905.635
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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With spontaneous activity as a measure of arousal, dose response curves were established for scopolamine and amphetamine administered to 10-, 15-, 20-, 25-, and 100-day-old rats. Amphetamine always increased activity, but scopolamine had no effect on younger rats, which suggests that adrenergic excitatory areas in the brainstem mature more rapidly than cholinergic inhibitory areas in the forebrain.
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