Somatostatin in the pontine reticular formation modulates fear potentiation of the acoustic startle response: An anatomical, electrophysiological, and behavioral study

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3097-3103

  Fendt, Markus ^a   Koch, Michael ^a   Schnitzler, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

acoustic startle response; amygdala; anxiety; caudal pontine reticular nucleus; central gray; fear; neuropeptides; periaqueductal gray; rat; sandostatin; SMS 201 995; somatostatin

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROPEPTIDE; OCTREOTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CENTRAL GRAY MATTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEAR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

EID: 0029972681     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-09-03097.1996     Document Type: Article

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