Antagonism by locally applied dopamine into the nucleus accumbens or the corpus striatum of ?-methyltyrosine-induced disruption of conditioned avoidance behaviour
- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Neural Transmission
- Vol. 41 (4), 231-239
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01252018
Abstract
Male Sprague-Dawley rats were trained to avoid an electric shock in a two-way shuttle-box. The local application of dopamine into the nucleus accumbens or the corpus striatum was found to antagonize the suppression of conditioned avoidance behaviour induced by systemically administeredα-methyltyrosine, emphasizing the importance of these dopamine-rich brain structures in mediating conditioned avoidance behaviour.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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