Two types of social buffering differentially mitigate conditioned fear responses

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3606-3613

  Kiyokawa, Yasushi ^a,b   Takeuchi, Yukari ^a   Mori, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Freezing; Rat; Social buffering; Stress induced hyperthermia

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HYPERTHERMIA; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STRESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEVER; MALE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS;

EID: 36949039602     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05969.x     Document Type: Article

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