Exercise Is Associated With Reduction in the Anxiogenic Effect of mCPP on Acoustic Startle

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 943-948

  Fox, James H ^a   Hammack, Sayamwong E ^a   Falls, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

5 HT2C receptor; anxiety; meta chlorophenylpiperazine; serotonin; wheel running

Indexed keywords

(3 CHLOROPHENYL)PIPERAZINE; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN AGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOWN REGULATION; EXERCISE; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; RUNNING; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; STARTLE REFLEX; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PIPERAZINES; SEROTONIN AGONISTS; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 50849144380     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.122.4.943     Document Type: Article

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