Predatory hunting and exposure to a live predator induce opposite patterns of Fos immunoreactivity in the PAG

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-28

  Comoli, E ^a   Ribeiro Barbosa, E R ^a   Canteras, Newton Sabino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aggressive behavior; Defensive behavior; Emotion; Foraging behavior; Periaqueductal gray; Predatory behavior

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN REGION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PERIPLANETA; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UPREGULATION;

AGGRESSION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; FEAR; FEMALE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; NEURONS; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PERIPLANETA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0037421122     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00197-3     Document Type: Article

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