Benzodiazepine receptor and serotonin 2A receptor modulate the aversive-like effects of nitric oxide in the dorsolateral periaqueductal gray of rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 176, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 362-368

  Moreira, Fabrício Araújo ^a   Guimarães, Francisco Silveira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

8 OH DPAT; Anxiety; DOI; Flight; Midazolam; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

2 DIPROPYLAMINO 8 HYDROXYTETRALIN; 4 IODO 2,5 DIMETHOXYAMPHETAMINE; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DRUG VEHICLE; LINSIDOMINE; MIDAZOLAM MALEATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; SEROTONIN 1A AGONIST; SEROTONIN 2A AGONIST; SEROTONIN 2A RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 2C AGONIST; SEROTONIN AGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CANNULA; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOLATERAL PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS; INHIBITION KINETICS; INJECTION; JUMPING; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RUNNING; TIME;

8-HYDROXY-2-(DI-N-PROPYLAMINO)TETRALIN; AMPHETAMINES; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GABA AGONISTS; GABA MODULATORS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MIDAZOLAM; MOLSIDOMINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT2A; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SEROTONIN AGENTS; SEROTONIN AGONISTS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 10944260986     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-004-1910-y     Document Type: Article

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