Calcitonin gene-related peptide in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis produces an anxiety-like pattern of behavior and increases neural activation in anxiety-related structures

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1802-1810

  Sink, Kelly S ^a   Walker, David L ^a   Yang, Yong ^a   Davis, Michael ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE RECEPTOR; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE[8-37]; PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BED NUCLEUS OF THE STRIA TERMINALIS; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; EXPOSURE; FECES; FOX; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRIA TERMINALIS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CELL COUNT; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; SEPTAL NUCLEI; STARTLE REACTION; THIAZOLES;

EID: 79551526151     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5274-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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