Premotor sympathetic neurons of conditioned fear in the rat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 428-446

  Carrive, Pascal ^a   Gorissen, Marika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

A5; Paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus; Perifornical hypothalamus; Psychological stress; Rostral ventrolateral medulla

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; PROTEIN FOS; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHOLERA TOXIN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; MALE; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STAINING AND LABELING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 47849129494     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06351.x     Document Type: Article

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