Playback of 22-kHz and 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations induces differential c-fos expression in rat brain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 435, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-23

  Sadananda, Monika ^a   Wöhr, Markus ^a   Schwarting, Rainer K W ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Appetitive; Aversive; Fos expression; Playback; Ultrasonic vocalization (USV)

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN TISSUE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECORTICATION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FOREBRAIN; FRONTAL CORTEX; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERCEPTION; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; VOCALIZATION; WISTAR RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DOPAMINE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 41149085932     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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