Influence of adrenalectomy on the odor detection performance of rats
| Autor: | Gary M. Brosvic, Judith M. Risser, Richard L. Doty |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Olfaction Discrimination Learning Behavioral Neuroscience Internal medicine Olfactometry Reaction Time medicine Animals Adrenalectomy Long evans Rats Smell Endocrinology Odor Sensory Thresholds Odorants Adrenal Cortex Conditioning Operant Detection performance Conditioning Corticosterone Psychology psychological phenomena and processes |
| Zdroj: | Physiology & Behavior. 49:1273-1277 |
| ISSN: | 0031-9384 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0031-9384(91)90362-r |
| Popis: | The influence of adrenalectomy (ADX) on the odor detection performance of male Long-Evans rats was assessed using high-precision olfactometry and a go/no-go operant signal detection task. Nonparametric signal detection measures of sensitivity and responsivity, as well as measures of S+ response latency, the number of aborted trials, and session time, were obtained in daily 250-trial test sessions prior to and after adrenalectomy. Four ADX animals were tested using the odorant pyridine, three using the odorant eugenol, and two using the odorant ethyl acetate. Nine other rats served as sham-operated controls. Neither odor detection nor related nonsensory performance measures were influenced by adrenalectomy or sham-operation procedures. These results imply that adrenalectomy has little or no influence on the odor detection performance of the rat. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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