Medial prefrontal cortex determines how stressor controllability affects behavior and dorsal raphe nucleus

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 365-371

  Amat, J ^a   Baratta, M V ^a   Paul, E ^a   Bland, S T ^a   Watkins, L R ^a   Maier, S F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN STEM; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROL; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; INHIBITION KINETICS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONIN RELEASE; STRESS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ELECTROSHOCK; ESCAPE REACTION; FEAR; GABA AGONISTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MICROINJECTIONS; MUSCIMOL; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SEROTONIN; STRESS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 14544297378     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1399     Document Type: Article

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