The predator odor, TMT, displays a unique, stress-like pattern of dopaminergic and endocrinological activation in the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 864, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 146-151

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

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned fear; Corticosterone; Dopamine; Medial prefrontal cortex; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEAR; FOX; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PREDATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOPAMINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEAR; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; STRESS; THIAZOLES;

EID: 0034607563     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)02174-0     Document Type: Article

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