Flight reactions to nitric oxide in the inferior colliculus of rats depend on NMDA receptor activation

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-41

  De Araújo Moreira, Fabrício ^a   Molchanov, Moriana Ludmilla ^a   Guimarães, Francisco Silveira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anxiety; AP7; Aversion; Flight reaction; Glutamate; SIN 1

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 7 PHOSPHONOHEPTANOIC ACID; 8 BROMOGUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE INHIBITOR; LINSIDOMINE; METHYLENE BLUE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT REACTION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; JUMPING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY;

ANIMALS; ESCAPE REACTION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 18844476444     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(03)00186-2     Document Type: Article

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