Effect of nucleus basalis magnocellularis cholinergic lesions on fear-like and anxiety-like behavior

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 307-312

  Knox, Dayan ^a,b   Berntson, Gary G ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Elevated plus maze; Fear conditioning; Freezing; NBM SI

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; SAPORIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FREEZING; LIGHT; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANXIETY; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOTOXINS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA;

EID: 33744476430     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.2.307     Document Type: Article

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