Involvement of the medial amygdaloid nucleus in restraint stress-induced pressor responses in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 354, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 84-86

  Kubo, Takao ^a   Okatani, Hideaki ^a   Nishigori, Yusuke ^a   Hagiwara, Yukihiko ^a   Fukumori, Ryuji ^a   Goshima, Yoshio ^b  

^a SHOWA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fos immunoreactivity; Medial amygdala; Muscimol; Pressor response; Rat; Restraint stress

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; MUSCIMOL; PROTEIN FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION;

EID: 0348047437     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.09.061     Document Type: Article

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