One-way avoidance acquisition and cellular density in the basolateral amygdala: Strain differences in Roman high- and low-avoidance rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 450, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 317-320

  Gómez, M José ^a   Morón, Ignacio ^b   Torres, Carmen ^a   Esteban, Francisco José ^a   de la Torre, Lourdes ^a   Cándido, Antonio ^b   Maldonado, Antonio ^b   Fernández Teruel, Alberto ^c   Tobeña, Adolf ^c   Escarabajal, M Dolores ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c Institute of Neurosciences   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Avoidance; Basolateral amygdala; Cellular density; Roman high and low avoidance rats

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN REGION; CELL DENSITY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FEAR; FEMALE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INBRED STRAIN; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; ROMAN HIGH AVOIDANCE RAT; ROMAN LOW AVOIDANCE RAT; STAINING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58249093801     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.10.112     Document Type: Article

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