Electrolytic lesions of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis disrupt freezing and startle potentiation in a conditioned context

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 357-362

  Luyten, Laura ^a   van Kuyck, Kris ^a   Vansteenwegen, Debora ^b   Nuttin, Bart ^a,c  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Contextual conditioning; Freezing; Lesion; Rat; Startle amplitude

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEPTAL NUCLEI; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 79955978826     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.066     Document Type: Article

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