Inhibitory avoidance impairments induced by intra-amygdala propranolol are reversed by glutamate but not glucose

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1033-1039

  Lennartz, Robert C ^a,b   Hellems, Kristen L ^a   Mook, Evan R ^a   Gold, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; PROPRANOLOL;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN LEVEL; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GLUCOSE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; GLUTAMIC ACID; INJECTIONS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURAL INHIBITION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PROPRANOLOL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0029908428     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.5.1033     Document Type: Article

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