Delayed alternation performance following subchronic phencyclidine administration in rats depends on task parameters.
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry June 30, 2007 Jean-Philippe Marquis, Marie-Claude Audet, François Y Doré et al.
The cognitive effects of subchronic phencyclidine administration in rats are still unsettled in the literature. Possible causes of discrepancies are different drug treatment regimens and task parameters. The current experiment tested whether variations in procedures of the delayed T-maze alternation task result in performance differences following identical PCP treatments. Sixteen rats were...