Acoustic startle amplitude predicts vulnerability to develop post-traumatic stress hyper-responsivity and associated plasma corticosterone changes in rats

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 282-291

  Rasmussen, Dennis D ^a,b   Crites, Norman J ^b   Burke, Brianna L ^b  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; PTSD; Risk factors; Startle; Trauma; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOTSHOCK; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STARTLE REACTION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 39149137167     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2007.11.010     Document Type: Article

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