Fluoxetine attenuates the effects of pentylenetetrazol on rat freezing behavior and c-Fos expression in the dorsomedial periaqueductal gray

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 414, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 252-256

  Zienowicz, Małgorzata ^a   Wisłowska Stanek, Aleksandra ^a   Lehner, Małgorzata ^b   Taracha, Ewa ^b   Skórzewska, Anna ^b   Bidziński, Andrzej ^b   Turzyńska, Danuta ^b   Sobolewska, Alicja ^b   Walkowiak, Jerzy ^b   Maciejak, Piotr ^a,b   Szyndler, Janusz ^a   Płaźnik, Adam ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

c Fos; Contextual fear conditioning; Fluoxetine (Flx); Freezing reaction; Pentylenetetrazol (PTZ); Periaqueductal gray (PAG)

Indexed keywords

FLUOKSETYNA; FLUOXETINE; PENTETRAZOLE; PROTEIN C FOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN TISSUE; COLD INJURY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; FEAR; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PANIC; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; FLUOXETINE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GABA ANTAGONISTS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847230139     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.12.017     Document Type: Article

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