Hippocampal mineralocorticoid, but not glucocorticoid, receptors modulate anxiety-like behavior in rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 507-513

  Smythe, James W ^a   Murphy, Deborah ^a   Timothy, Carryl ^a   Costall, Brenda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anxiety; Black White box; corticosterone; glucocorticoid; hippocampus; hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; mineralocorticoid; RU 38486; spironolactone

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MIFEPRISTONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MIFEPRISTONE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030975631     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(96)00244-4     Document Type: Article

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