Fos-like immunoreactivity in the brain associated with freezing or escape induced by inhibition of either glutamic acid decarboxylase or GABAA receptors in the dorsal periaqueductal gray

Brain Research

Volumn 1051, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 100-111

  Borelli, Karina Genaro ^a   Ferreira Netto, Cristina ^a   Coimbra, Norberto Cysne ^a   Brandão, Marcus Lira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cuneiform nucleus; Defensive behavior; Dorsal premammillary nucleus; Fear; Laterodorsal thalamic nucleus; Ventromedial hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; PROTEIN FOS; SEMICARBAZIDE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CELL LABELING; COLD TOLERANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEATE NUCLEUS; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DRUG INFUSION; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCAPE REACTION; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEMICARBAZIDES;

EID: 22144438013     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.05.068     Document Type: Article

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