Carbachol injections into the nucleus accumbens disrupt acquisition and expression of fear-potentiated startle and freezing in rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 769-778

  Schwienbacher, I ^a   Schnitzler, H U ^a   Westbrook, R F ^b   Richardson, R ^b   Fendt, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

acetylcholine; dopamine; extinction; learned fear; reward

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; HALOPERIDOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEAR; FREEZING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CARBACHOL; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DOPAMINE; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 33646800553     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.02.052     Document Type: Article

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