Midazolam reduces the selective activation of the rhinal cortex by contextual fear stimuli

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 631-638

  Albrechet Souza, Lucas ^a,b   Borelli, Karina G ^a,c   Almada, Rafael C ^a,b   Brandão, Marcus L ^a,b  

^a Instituto de Neurociencias and Comportamento INeC   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Conditioned freezing; Fos expression; Midazolam; Rhinal cortex; Ventral hippocampus

Indexed keywords

MIDAZOLAM; PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEAR; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GABA MODULATORS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDAZOLAM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TEMPORAL LOBE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 78149497299     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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