Acquisition of pavlovian fear conditioning using Β-adrenoceptor activation of the dorsal premammillary nucleus as an unconditioned stimulus to mimic live predator-threat exposure

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 926-939

  Pavesi, Eloisa ^a   Canteras, Newton S ^b   Carobrez, Antônio P ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

adrenergic agonist; adrenoceptor; defensive behavior; dorsal premammillary nucleus; interoceptive stimulus; olfactory fear conditioning

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BUTOXAMINE; ISOPRENALINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL PREMAMMILLARY NUCLEUS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEAR; HABITUATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY FEAR CONDITIONING; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; STIMULATION;

ADRENERGIC BETA-1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; ADRENERGIC BETA-2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATENOLOL; BUTOXAMINE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEAR; ISOPROTERENOL; MALE; MAMILLARY BODIES; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ODORS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; VALINE;

EID: 79952759880     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2010.231     Document Type: Article

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