Role of homocysteic acid in the guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) anterior cingulate cortex in tonic immobility and the influence of NMDA receptors on the dorsal PAG

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 237-242

  Coutinho, Márcio Ramos ^a   Menescal de Oliveira, Leda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Defensive behavioural; Excitatory amino acids; Guinea pig; MK 801; NMDA; Periaqueductal gray matter; Tonic immobility

Indexed keywords

DIZOCILPINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; HOMOCYSTEIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; GUINEA PIG; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TONIC IMMOBILITY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CINGULATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GUINEA PIGS; GYRUS CINGULI; HOMOCYSTEINE; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 77951908394     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.11.047     Document Type: Article

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