Norepinephrine depletion impairs neuroendocrine responses to fear but not novel environmental stimuli in the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 713, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 261-268

  Onaka, Tatsushi ^a   Palmer, John R ^b   Yagi, Kinji ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

conditioned fear; motor activity; norepinephrine; novelty stress; noxious stimulus; oxytocin; prolactin; vasopressin

Indexed keywords

NEUROTOXIN; NORADRENALIN; OXYTOCIN; PROLACTIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

EID: 0029867886     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)01552-3     Document Type: Article

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