Chemical Lesion of the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis Blocks the Behavioral Consequences of Uncontrollable Stress

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 443-448

  Hammack, Sayamwong E ^a   Richey, Kristen J ^b   Watkins, Linda R ^b   Maier, Steven F ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FREEZING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SHOCK; STRESS; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTAL NUCLEI; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 1842531466     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.2.443     Document Type: Article

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