Stereotaxic delivery of corticosterone to the amygdala modulates colonic sensitivity in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 893, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 135-142

  Greenwood Van Meerveld, Beverley ^a   Gibson, Matthew ^a   Gunter, Wesley ^a,b   Shepard, Jack ^b   Foreman, Robert ^b   Myers, Dean ^b  

^a Oklahoma Foundation for Digestive Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Colorectal distention; Elevated plus maze; Glucocorticoid; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COLON DILATATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REPRODUCIBILITY; STEREOTAXIS;

ACETIC ACID; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOLESTEROL; COLON; COLONIC DISEASES, FUNCTIONAL; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG IMPLANTS; INSTILLATION, DRUG; MALE; MANOMETRY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 0035793937     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)03305-9     Document Type: Article

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