Impaired escape performance and enhanced conditioned fear in rats following exposure to an uncontrollable stressor are mediated by glutamate and nitric oxide in the dorsal raphe nucleus

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 33-41

  Grahn, Ruth E ^a   Watkins, Linda R ^b   Maier, Steven F ^b  

^a Goodwin Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

2 Amino 5 phosphonovaleric acid; 5 HT; Conditioned fear; Dorsal raphe nucleus; Inescapable tailshock; Learned helplessness; Nitric oxide synthase inhibitors; NMDA receptors; NO; Nw nitro L arginine methyl ester; Rats; Serotonin; Shuttlebox escape performance

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONDITIONING; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCAPE REACTION; FEAR; GLUTAMIC ACID; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SEROTONIN;

EID: 0034222536     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00161-3     Document Type: Article

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