Peripheral benzodiazepine receptors in cerebral cortex, but not in internal organs, are increased following inescapable stress and subsequent avoidance/escape shuttle-box testing

Brain Research

Volumn 851, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 141-147

  Lehmann, Julia ^a   Weizman, Ronit ^b   Pryce, Christopher R ^a   Leschiner, Svetlana ^c   Allmann, Isabelle ^a   Feldon, Joram ^a   Gavish, Moshe ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TEL AVIV COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Avoidance learning; Benzodiazepine receptor; Coping; Corticosterone; Rat; Unconditioned stimulus preexposure effect

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; FLUMAZENIL; N SEC BUTYL 1 (2 CHLOROPHENYL) N METHYL 3 ISOQUINOLINECARBOXAMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; STRESS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICOSTERONE; FLUMAZENIL; GABA MODULATORS; ISOQUINOLINES; KIDNEY; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; STRESS; TESTIS;

EID: 0033387545     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)02160-5     Document Type: Article

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