Fos immunoreactivity in the rat forebrain induced by electrical stimulation of the dorsolateral periaqueductal gray matter

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 83-96

  Lim, Lee Wei ^a,b,c   Temel, Yasin ^a,b,c   Visser Vandewalle, Veerle ^a,b   Blokland, Arjan ^a,c   Steinbusch, Harry ^a,c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c European Graduate School of Neuroscience   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

c Fos immunoreactivity; Escape behaviour; Fear like behaviour; Forebrain; Neuroanatomy; Panic like behaviour; Periaqueductal gray

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FOREBRAIN; HABENULA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY NUCLEUS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PANIC; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BASAL GANGLIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; DIENCEPHALON; FEAR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 68349155698     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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