A panic attack-like unusual stress reaction

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 584-591

  Schenberg, Luiz Carlos ^a   dos Reis, Adelina Martha ^b   Ferreira Póvoa, Raner Miguel ^a   Tufik, Sérgio ^c   Silva, Sara Regina ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ACTH; Corticotropin; Panic; Periaqueductal gray matter; Prolactin; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PANIC; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ESCAPE REACTION; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PANIC DISORDER; POLYISOPRENYL PHOSPHATE MONOSACCHARIDES; PROLACTIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 54149107061     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.02.019     Document Type: Article

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