Conditioned place aversion organized in the dorsal periaqueductal gray recruits the laterodorsal nucleus of the thalamus and the basolateral amygdala

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 127-136

  Zanoveli, Janaina M ^a   Ferreira Netto, Cristina ^a   Brandão, Marcus L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Basolateral nucleus of amygdala; Dorsal periaqueductal gray; Fos protein distribuition; Lateral dorsal nucleus of thalamus; Unconditioned and conditioned fear

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

AGORAPHOBIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; MALE; NONHUMAN; PANIC; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; THALAMUS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMICARBAZIDES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 35348934286     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2007.08.007     Document Type: Article

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