Inhibition of neuronal nitric oxide reduces anxiety-like responses to pair housing

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 109-115

  Workman, Joanna L ^a   Trainor, Brian C ^a,b   Finy, M Sima ^a   Nelson, Randy J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone; Elevated plus maze; Mice; nNOS; NOS 1; Paraventricular nucleus

Indexed keywords

3 BROMO 7 NITROINDAZOLE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENE DELETION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENOTYPE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDAZOLES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 36749056262     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.08.033     Document Type: Article

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