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Substance P injected into the region of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis facilitates performance of an inhibitory avoidance task

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The influence of SP on the performance of the single trial “uphill avoidance task” was tested and the post-trial injection of 1 ng SP led to significantly longer latencies in the uphill response.
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The neuropeptide substance P (SP) was injected into the region of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis (NBM). The influence of SP on the performance of the single trial “uphill avoidance task” was tested. The post-trial injection of 1 ng SP (in 0.5 μl volume) led to significantly longer latencies in the uphill response. This result can be interpreted in terms of a facilitating effect of SP on performance of an inhibitory avoidance response.

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The Cholinergic Hypothesis of Geriatric Memory Dysfunction

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Distribution of substance P-like immunoreactivity in the central nervous system of the rat—I. Cell bodies and nerve terminals

TL;DR: It was difficult to identify substance-P immunoreactive axons in the rats studied, and further experimental studies are necessary to elucidate the projections of the substance P-immunoreactive neurons in the rat central nervous system.
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Evidence for a projection from the lateral preoptic area and substantia innominata to the 'mesencephalic locomotor region' in the rat.

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Ramifications of the globus pallidus in the rat as indicated by patterns of immunohistochemistry

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