GABAergic regulation of auditory sensory gating in low- and high-anxiety rats submitted to a fear conditioning procedure

Neuroscience

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1152-1163

  Nobre, M J ^a,b   Cabral, A ^a,c   Brandao M L ^a,b  

^a Instituto de Neurociencias and Comportamento INeC   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Auditory evoked potentials; Fear conditioning; GABA

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BENZODIAZEPINE; BICUCULLINE; DIAZEPAM; MUSCIMOL; SEMICARBAZIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEAR; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SENSORY GATING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BENZODIAZEPINES; BICUCULLINE; CLONIXIN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DIAZEPAM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEAR; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; GABA-A RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICROINJECTIONS; MUSCIMOL; NEURONS; PROSTAGLANDIN ANTAGONISTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SENSORY GATING; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 78650172023     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.10.011     Document Type: Article

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