Isolation reduces contextual but not auditory-cue fear conditioning: A role for endogenous opioids

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 316-323

  Rudy, Jerry W ^a   Kuwagama, Kazuko ^a   Pugh, C Rachal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; OPIATE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVERSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SHOCK; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; MORPHINE; NALTREXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; OPIOID PEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, OPIOID; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 0032896050     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.2.316     Document Type: Article

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