Release of glutamate and GABA in the amygdala of conscious rats by acute stress and baroreceptor activation: Differences between SHR and WKY rats

Brain Research

Volumn 864, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 138-141

  Singewald, Nicolas ^a   Kouvelas, Dimitrios ^b   Mostafa, Adel ^a   Sinner, Catrin ^a   Philippu, Athineos ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Extracellular glutamate; GABA; Hypertension; Noise stress; Spontaneously hypertensive rat

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; VERATRIDINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRESS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; NEURONS; PRESSORECEPTORS; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; STRESS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS; VERATRIDINE;

EID: 0034607574     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)02172-7     Document Type: Article

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