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Three days after training, scopolamine-injected animals were found to exhaust sooner than similarly trained saline-injected and control groups. No differences in running times were found among groups 1 week after training. It is suggested that recently trained animals show greater reliance on a cholinergic system.
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This work was assisted by Public Health Service Grant MH 5 Tl 6415-13 awarded to the senior author, and facilities were provided by the Department of Physical Education, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Hutton, R.S., Stevens, J.L. Scopolamine effects on forced exercise to exhaustion. Psychon Sci 27, 171–172 (1972). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328928
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