A five minute experience in the elevated plus-maze alters the state of the benzodiazepine receptor in the dorsal raphe nucleus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1505-1511

  Gonzalez, Luis E ^a   File, Sandra E ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

benzodiazepine receptors; dorsal raphe; flumazenil; midazolam; plus maze; social interaction

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; FLUMAZENIL; MIDAZOLAM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

EID: 0031015742     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-04-01505.1997     Document Type: Article

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