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The effect of strychnine administration during development on adult maze learning in the rat

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Strychnine sulphate administered to rats during post-natal development affected the rate of maze learning in adulthood. Rats given the drug in a rich environment (drug-rich group) learned a maze at a faster rate than rats treated similarly but raised in laboratory cages (drug-caged group). The performance of rats given no drug was intermediate to that of the drug-rich and drug-caged groups.

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  1. Crown College University of California, Santa Cruz, California

    Burney J. Le Boeuf

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, USA

    Harman V. S. Peeke

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Le Boeuf, B.J., Peeke, H.V.S. The effect of strychnine administration during development on adult maze learning in the rat. Psychopharmacologia 16, 49–53 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00405255

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