Role of glutamate receptors in the nucleus accumbens on behavioural responses to novel conflictive and non-conflictive environments in the rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 143-153

  Alvarez, Edgardo O ^a   Ruarte, Marcela B ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Asymmetric elevated plus maze; Emotionality; Glutamate; Motivation; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 3 PHOSPHONOPROPIONIC ACID; 2 AMINO 7 PHOSPHONOHEPTANOIC ACID; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; GLUTAMIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MICROINJECTION; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTIVATION; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0035860651     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(01)00190-5     Document Type: Article

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