Effects of intracerebral ventricular administration of gastrin-releasing peptide and its receptor antagonist RC-3095 on learned fear responses in the rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 519-524

  Merali, Zul ^a   Mountney, Christine ^a   Kent, Pam ^a   Anisman, Hymie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bombesin; Conditioned emotional response; Conditioned fear; Fear potentiated startle; Gastrin releasing peptide; RC 3095; Stress

Indexed keywords

GASTRIN RELEASING PEPTIDE; RC 3095;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMOTION; FEAR; LEARNING; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BOMBESIN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEAR; GASTRIN-RELEASING PEPTIDE; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, BOMBESIN; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 78149499542     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.08.027     Document Type: Article

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