Effects of cholinergic agonists on the dorsal immobility response

Potter, Thomas J.; Cottrell, G. A.; Hartesveldt, Carol Van

doi:10.1016/0091-3057(90)90128-5

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“…Estrogens are known to affect the catecholamine system (Lloyd and Weisz, 1978;Foreman and Porter, 1980;Merriam et al, 1980). These findings raise the possibility that the nVH lesion affects the development of other neural systems implicated in the control of the IR, such as the cholinergic or estrogenic systems (Smith and Van Hartesveldt, 1985;Becker et al, 1987;Van Hartesveldt et al, 1990;Potter et al, 1990). In addition, our recent data in male and female rats with nVH lesions suggest that gender differences in the development of behavior resulted after the nVH lesion (Silva-Gó mez et al, 2003).…”

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Effect of excitotoxic lesions of the neonatal ventral hippocampus on the immobility response in rats

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“…Cholinergic agonists attenuate the IR (Potter et al, 1990) and intrastriatal estrogens affect the IR (Joyce and Van Hartesveldt, 1984a,b;Van Hartesveldt et al, 1990). Estrogens are known to affect the catecholamine system (Lloyd and Weisz, 1978;Foreman and Porter, 1980;Merriam et al, 1980).…”

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Effect of excitotoxic lesions of the neonatal ventral hippocampus on the immobility response in rats

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“…Similarly, administration of pilocarpine reduces TR intensity in 23-day-old rats (Wilson & Cromey, 1989a). These results, the decrease in limb adduction reported by Wilson and Cromey (1989a), and the decrease in DIR with pilocarpine, led Potter et al (1990) to suggest that the two responses are closely related.…”

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“…Several authors have reported increases in DIR durations with DA antagonists (Byrnes, Ughrin, & Bruno, 1996;Meyer, 1990;Meyer et al, 1984;Van Hartesveldt & Meyer, 1993). Wilson et al (1984), on the other hand, reported a suppression of the TR with the DA antagonist haloperidol.…”

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Effects of Atropine on Measures of Behavioral Arousal in Rats

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The Journal of General Psychology

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Forty-day-old rats were given varying doses (0.0, 7.5, or 15.0 mg/kg/5 ml) of atropine sulfate or atropine methylnitrate and then were tested for levels of behavioral arousal-inhibition. Behavioral measures included transport response intensity, vertical cling catalepsy duration, and dorsal immobility duration. Atropine sulfate produced large increments in transport response intensities, and atropine methylnitrate produced intermediate effects, compared with saline-treated control rats. No drug effect was reported for the measures of vertical cling catalepsy or dorsal immobility. Intraclass correlations among the various behavioral measures in this study revealed a reliable relationship between dorsal immobility duration and transport response intensity in the saline group. Administration of either the methylnitrate or sulfate solution negated this relationship. Results are discussed with respect to (a) possible mechanisms relating dorsal immobility and transport response and (b) reasons for the loss of relationship between the two measures with administration of atropine solutions.

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