TMT, a predator odor, elevates mesoprefrontal dopamine metabolic activity and disrupts short-term working memory in the rat

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 519-523

  Morrow, Bret A ^a   Roth, Robert H ^a   Elsworth, John D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Dopamine; Medial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

2,5 DIHYDRO 2,4,5 TRIMETHYLTHIAZOLINE; CORTICOSTERONE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PREDATOR; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; DOPAMINE; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THIAZOLES; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0033843104     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(00)00290-2     Document Type: Article

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