Behavioral and autonomic responses to acute restraint stress are segregated within the lateral septal area of rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Reis, Daniel G ^a   Scopinho, América A ^a   Guimarães, Francisco S ^a   Corrêa, Fernando M A ^a   Resstel, Leonardo B M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS; ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; ANIMAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DRUG EFFECT; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; INNERVATION; MENTAL STRESS; MICROINJECTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ANTIMUTAGENIC AGENT; COBALT; COBALT CHLORIDE;

ANIMALS; ANTIMUTAGENIC AGENTS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COBALT; HEART RATE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICROINJECTIONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEPTUM OF BRAIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 80051688336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023171     Document Type: Article

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