Amygdaloid GABA, not glutamate neurotransmission or mRNA transcription controls footshock-associated fear arousal in the acoustic startle paradigm

Neuroscience

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 707-716

  Van Nobelen, M ^a   Kokkinidis, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Conditioned fear; GABAA receptors; Glutamate receptors; mRNA transcription; Unconditioned fear

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANISOMYCIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; MUSCIMOL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; VALERIC ACID;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DRUG INFUSION; FEAR; LABORATORY; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SENSITIZATION; SHOCK; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEAR; GABA AGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RNA, MESSENGER; STARTLE REACTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 29744448949     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2005.08.061     Document Type: Article

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