Contribution of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons to expression of conditional fear: Effects of electrical stimulation, excitotoxin lesions, and quinpirole infusion on potentiated startle in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1349-1364

  Borowski, Thomas B ^a   Kokkinidis, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; EXCITOTOXIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; QUINPIROLE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEAR; FOREBRAIN; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOPAMINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEAR; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROTOXINS; PROSENCEPHALON; QUINPIROLE; RATS; STARTLE REACTION; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0030459860     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.6.1349     Document Type: Article

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