Effect of reduced cholinesterase activity on the maintenance of an operant response.
- 1 January 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 63 (1) , 155-157
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0020840
Abstract
Acute reduction in cholinesterase activity levels slowed fixed-ratio lever pressing in the rat. Chronic cholinesterase reduction had progressively less slowing effect.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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