Dissociation between mesocortical dopamine release and fear-related behaviours in two psychogenetically selected lines of rats that differ in coping strategies to aversive conditions

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2716-2726

  Giorgi, Osvaldo ^a   Lecca, D ^a   Piras, G ^a   Driscoll, P ^b   Corda, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brain microdialysis; Cognition; Medial prefrontal cortex; Nucleus accumbens; Pentylenetetrazol; Roman high avoidance and low avoidance rats; Stress; ZK 93426

Indexed keywords

5 ISOPROPOXY 4 METHYL BETA CARBOLINE 3 CARBOXYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; DOPAMINE; PENTETRAZOLE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVERSION; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING; GROOMING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENESIS; RAT; STRESS;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DOPAMINE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; GABA ANTAGONISTS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REACTION TIME; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037669815     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02689.x     Document Type: Article

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