Enhancement of acoustic evoked potentials and impairment of startle reflex induced by reduction of GABAergic control of the neural substrates of aversion in the inferior colliculus

Hearing Research

Volumn 184, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 82-90

  Nobre, Manoel Jorge ^a   Sandner, Guy ^b   Brandão, Marcus Lira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Emotion; Evoked potential; Inferior colliculus; Startle; Aminobutyric acid

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; APOMORPHINE; DOPAMINE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; SEMICARBAZIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0141750477     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(03)00231-4     Document Type: Article

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