Significance of dopamine transmission in the rat medial prefrontal cortex for conditioned fear

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 371-380

  Pezze, Marie A ^a,b   Bast, Tobias ^a,c   Feldon, Joram ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; FLUPENTIXOL; METHAMPHETAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; FEAR; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DOPAMINE AGONISTS; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; FEAR; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0037380946     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/13.4.371     Document Type: Article

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