Involvement of medullary A2 noradrenergic neurons in the activation of oxytocin neurons after conditioned fear stimuli

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2186-2198

  Zhu, Lingling ^a   Onaka, Tatsushi ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Footshocks; Fos; Freezing behaviour; Rat; Retrograde tracers

Indexed keywords

5 AMINO 2,4 DIHYDROXYAMPHETAMINE; AMINE; NEUROTOXIN; NORADRENALIN; OXYTOCIN; PROTEIN FOS; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; GIANT CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE CELL; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SHOCK; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; NOREPINEPHRINE; OXYTOCIN; PHENETHYLAMINES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0036454575     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02285.x     Document Type: Article

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