Neonatal treatment with a competitive NMDA antagonist results in response-specific disruption of conditioned fear in preweanling rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 179-187

  Hunt, Pamela S ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; CGP 43487; Conditioned fear; Freezing; Glutamate; Heart rate; Neonatal rat; NMDA antagonist; Olfactory

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 4 METHYL 5 PHOSPHONO 3 PENTENOIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; WEANING;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 33644846955     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-005-0291-1     Document Type: Article

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