Effects of nicotine pretreatment on dopaminergic and behavioral responses to conditioned fear stress in rats: Dissociation of biochemical and behavioral effects

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 300-306

  George, Tony P ^a,b   Picciotto, Marina R ^b   Verrico, Christopher D ^b   Roth, Robert H ^b  

^a Abraham Ribicoff Research Facilities   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned fear stress; Dopamine; Immobility response; Nicotine; Nucleus accumbens; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NICOTINE TARTRATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMORBIDITY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; FEAR; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOPAMINE; FEAR; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NICOTINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMEDICATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0035251768     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(00)00928-8     Document Type: Article

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