Amygdala co-ordinates sudden falls in ear pinna blood flow in response to unconditioned salient stimuli in conscious rabbits

Neuroscience

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 135-141

  Yu, Y H ^a   Blessing, W W ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alerting responses; Amygdala; Cutaneous blood flow; Ear pinna; Stress; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL EAR; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SKIN BLOOD FLOW;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; EAR, EXTERNAL; HEART RATE; INJECTIONS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RABBITS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0033002372     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00097-4     Document Type: Article

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