Effects of gastrin-releasing peptide agonist and antagonist administered to the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala on conditioned fear in the rat

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-58

  Mountney, Christine ^a   Anisman, Hymie ^b   Merali, Zul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Bombesin; Conditioned emotional response; Fear; Gastrin releasing peptide; RC 3095

Indexed keywords

BOMBESIN DERIVATIVE; GASTRIN RELEASING PEPTIDE; RC 3095;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEAR; FREEZING BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BOMBESIN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEAR; GASTRIN-RELEASING PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 49749101641     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-008-1118-7     Document Type: Article

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