Corticosterone controls the developmental emergence of fear and amygdala function to predator odors in infant rat pups

International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 415-422

  Moriceau, Stephanie ^a   Roth, Tania L ^a   Okotoghaide, Terri ^a   Sullivan, Regina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Corticosterone; Development; Fear; Hippocampus; Infant rat; Predator odor

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADRENALECTOMY; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEVELOPMENT; FEAR; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS; STRESS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; ODORS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 4544279600     PISSN: 07365748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2004.05.011     Document Type: Article

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