The effect of acupuncture on anxiety and neuropeptide Y expression in the basolateral amygdala of maternally separated rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 377, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 179-184

  Park, Hi Joon ^a   Chae, Younbyoung ^a   Jang, Jiryeon ^a   Shim, Insop ^a   Lee, Hyejung ^a   Lim, Sabina ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Amygdala; Anxiety; Maternal separation; Neuropeptide Y

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ACUPUNCTURE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE TEST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STRESS;

EID: 14744292426     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.11.097     Document Type: Article

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