Effects of neurosteroid actions at N-methyl-d-aspartate and GABA A receptors in the midbrain ventral tegmental area for anxiety-like and mating behavior of female rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-103

  Frye, Cheryl A ^a   Paris, Jason J ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Allopregnanolone; Anxiety; Corticosterone; Dizocilpine; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Lordosis; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ACETAMIDE DERIVATIVE; BICUCULLINE; DIZOCILPINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N,N DIHEXYL 2 (4 FLUOROPHENYL)INDOLE 3 ACETAMIDE; NEUROSTEROID; PROGESTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENALECTOMY; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LORDOSIS; MAZE TEST; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TEGMENTUM;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BICUCULLINE; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; FEMALE; GABA-A RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICROINJECTIONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 78651256551     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-010-2016-3     Document Type: Article

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