Assessment of anxiety-like behaviors in female rats bred for differences in kindling susceptibility and amygdala excitability

Brain Research

Volumn 1240, Issue , 2008, Pages 143-152

  Runke, Dwayne ^a   McIntyre, Dan C ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion; Fear; Genetic predisposition; Kindling; Strain difference

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; IMPULSIVENESS; KINDLING; LEARNING; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MAZE TEST; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STARTLE REFLEX; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; RATS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 54949113885     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.08.090     Document Type: Article

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