Elicitation and reduction of fear: Behavioural and neuroendocrine indices and brain induction of the immediate-early gene c-fos

Neuroscience

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1087-1104

  Campeau, S ^a   Falls, W A ^c   Cullinan, W E ^a   Helmreich, D L ^a   Davis, M ^b   Watson, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic startle; anxiety; conditioning; corticosterone; histochemistry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; GENE INDUCTION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FOS; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0030983258     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00632-X     Document Type: Article

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