Effects of lesioning noradrenergic neurones in the locus coeruleus on conditioned and unconditioned aversive behaviour in the rat

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1307-1321

  Neophytou, Savvas Ioannou ^a   Aspley, Sue ^b   Butler, Sarah ^b   Beckett, Simon ^a   Marsden, Charles Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention; Coeruleus; Conditioned fear; Escape behaviour; Locus coeruleus; Noradrenergic

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; OXIDOPAMINE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DOPAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FRONTAL CORTEX; IMMOBILIZATION; JUMPING; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BRAIN LEVEL; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; RAT; RUNNING; SEROTONIN BLOOD LEVEL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ULTRASOUND;

ADRENERGIC AGENTS; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; OXIDOPAMINE; RATS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0034857123     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-5846(01)00181-6     Document Type: Article

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