Intra-amygdala injections of neuropeptide S block fear-potentiated startle

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 474, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 154-157

  Fendt, Markus ^a   Imobersteg, Stefan ^a   Bürki, Hugo ^a   McAllister, Kevin H ^a   Sailer, Andreas W ^a  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Conditioned fear; Locomotor activity; Mice

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE S;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FRONTAL CORTEX; HISTOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STARTLE REFLEX; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPEPTIDES; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 77951497812     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.03.028     Document Type: Article

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