Fear-potentiation in the elevated plus-maze test depends on stressor controllability and fear conditioning

Stress

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-40

  Mechiel Korte, S ^a,b   De Boer, Sietse F ^a   Bohus, Béla ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contextual Conditioning; Controllability; Diazepam; DMCM; Fear potentiation; Generalized Anxiety; Plus maze; Stress

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0032874048     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253899909001110     Document Type: Article

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