Conditioned fear and inescapable shock modify the release of serotonin in the locus coeruleus

Brain Research

Volumn 859, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 249-254

  Kaehler, Stefan T ^a   Singewald, Nicolas ^a   Sinner, Catrin ^a   Thurnher, Cosima ^a   Philippu, Athineos ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arterial blood pressure; Conditioned fear; Extracellular serotonin (5 HT); Heart rate; Locus coeruleus (LC); Motility; Push pull superfusion; Telemetric recording

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; LIGHT; LOCOMOTION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; SHOCK; STRESS;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEAR; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; RATS; SEROTONIN; STRESS;

EID: 0034708748     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)01967-3     Document Type: Article

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