Behavioral and c-fos expression changes induced by nitric oxide donors microinjected into the dorsal periaqueductal gray

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 457-464

  De Oliveira, Rúbia Weffort ^a   Del Bel, Elaine Aparecida ^a   Guimarães, Francisco Silveira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Aversion; Flight reaction; NO; Stress

Indexed keywords

LINSIDOMINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; HYDRAZINES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MOLSIDOMINE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NITROGEN OXIDES; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0034033523     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(99)00248-8     Document Type: Article

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