Amygdalar roles during exposure to a live predator and to a predator-associated context

Neuroscience

Volumn 172, Issue , 2011, Pages 314-328

  Martinez, R C ^a   Carvalho Netto, E F ^a   Ribeiro Barbosa, E R ^a   Baldo, M V C ^a   Canteras, N S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Basomedial amygdalar nucleus; Central amygdalar nucleus; Conditioned fear; Lateral amygdalar nucleus; Medial amygdalar nucleus; Unconditioned fear

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PREDATOR STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UPREGULATION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; FEAR; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 78650744697     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.10.033     Document Type: Article

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