Diverse sensitivity of RHA/Verh and RLA/Verh rats to emotional and spatial aspects of a novel environment as a result of a distinct pattern of neuronal activation in the fear/anxiety circuit

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 48-61

  Meyza, Ksenia Z ^a   Boguszewski, Pawel M ^b   Nikolaev, Evgeni ^a   Zagrodzka, Jolanta ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C Fos protein expression; Emotional reactivity; Fear anxiety circuit; PCA analysis; RHA Verh RLA Verh rats; Spontaneous behavior

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LINE DIFFERENCE; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REACTION ANALYSIS; STRESS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LIGHTING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL;

RATTUS;

EID: 57849126630     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-008-9234-z     Document Type: Article

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