A Conditioned Stressful Environment Causes Short-Term Metaplastic-Like Changes in the Rat Nucleus Accumbens

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 3224-3231

  Hugues, Sandrine ^a   Kessal, Karima ^a   Hunt, Mark J ^a   Garcia, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FREEZING; MALE; METAPLASIA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0242593710     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00895.2002     Document Type: Article

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