Modulation of conditioned fear, fear-conditioned analgesia, and brain regional C-fos expression following administration of muscimol into the rat basolateral amygdala

Journal of Pain

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 712-721

  Rea, Kieran ^a   Roche, Michelle ^a   Finn, David P ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Amygdala; analgesia; c Fos; fear; GABAA receptor; muscimol; pain; rat

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; MUSCIMOL; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; DRUG EFFECT; FEAR; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANALGESIA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEAR; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; MALE; MUSCIMOL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 79958145076     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2010.12.010     Document Type: Article

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