Chronic corticosterone administration does not potentiate unconditioned freezing to the predator odor, trimethylthiazoline

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 32-38

  Rosen, Jeffrey B ^a   Donley, Melanie P ^a   Gray, Dione ^a   West, Elizabeth A ^a   Morgan, Maria A ^d   Schulkin, Jay ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Corticosterone; Fear; Odor; Predator; Stress; Trimethylthiazoline

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHYLTHIAZOLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CATALEPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; FEAR; MALE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PREDATOR STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEROID RELEASE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CORTICOSTERONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; ODORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THIAZOLES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 50049133426     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.06.019     Document Type: Article

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