Dose-dependent suppression of adrenocortical activity with metyrapone: Effects on emotion and memory

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 681-693

  Roozendaal, Benno ^a   Bohus, Béla ^b   McGaugh, James L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

anxiety; elevated plus maze; fear; glucocorticoid receptor; immobility; mineralocorticoid receptor; plasma corticosterone; water maze

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; METYRAPONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DRUG DOSE; EMOTION; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION, CHEMICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMOTIONS; ESCAPE REACTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; METYRAPONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0030291917     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4530(96)00028-5     Document Type: Article

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