Conditioning and retention of defensive burying as a function of the injection of a central cholinergic stimulant.
Two groups of rats received defensive-burying testing under the effects of saline or physostigmine injection. Saline-injected animals buried more during the first (drug-state) session than did the physostigmine-injected animals. Twenty-four hours later all Ss received a retention test under the nondrug condition. Ss originally tested under the physostigmine state buried more than the saline-injected animals did.
D000818:Animals; D001362:Avoidance Learning / Q000187:drug effects; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000187:drug effects*; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological / Q000187:drug effects*; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000187:drug effects*; D009115:Muridae; D010830:Physostigmine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012153:Retention, Psychology / Q000187:drug effects
D010830:Physostigmine