Early postnatal protein malnutrition causes resistance to the anxiolytic effects of diazepam as assessed by the fear-potentiated startle test

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 23-29

  Francolin Silva A L ^a   Brandao M L ^a   Almeida, S S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diazepam; Early malnutrition; Fear potentiated startle; Freezing; Startle reflex

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; DIAZEPAM; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEAR; FREEZING TOLERANCE; MALE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DIET; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BODY WEIGHT; DIAZEPAM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEAR; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STARTLE REACTION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 34247552232     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10284150601168346     Document Type: Article

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