The suppression of behaviour in rats by previous experience and electric shock and its antagonism by atropine.
Behavioural suppression was induced in rats by either previous experience alone or by a combination of previous experience and electric footshock. The effects of atropine (10 mg/kg) were compared with saline on a number of behavioural parameters suppressed by the above treatments. Atropine antagonised habituation and shock-induced suppression, which suggests that behavioural suppression however induced, may depend upon a common neuropharmacological mechanism.
D000818:Animals; D001285:Atropine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000187:drug effects*; D004597:Electroshock; D005260:Female; D006120:Grooming; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic / Q000187:drug effects; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000187:drug effects; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
D001285:Atropine