Serotonin reuptake inhibitors reduce conditioned fear stress-induced freezing behavior in rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 182-186

  Hashimoto, Shinji ^a   Inoue, Takeshi ^a   Koyama, Tsukasa ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Citalopram; Conditioned fear stress; Fluvoxamine; Freezing behavior; Milnacipran; Serotonin reuptake inhibitors

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITOR; FLUVOXAMINE; MAPROTILINE; MILNACIPRAN; NORADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ORG 4428; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANOXERINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CITALOPRAM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEAR; FLUVOXAMINE; MALE; MAPROTILINE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 0030071884     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02246175     Document Type: Article

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