Estrous cycle stage influences on neuronal responsiveness to repeated anxiogenic stress in female rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 334-340

  Devall, Adam J ^a   Santos, Julia M ^a,b   Lovick, Thelma A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anxiogenic stress; C fos; Estrous cycle; Female rats; Hyperalgesia; Periaqueductal grey; Previous experience

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIOGENIC STRESS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL STRESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HYPERALGESIA; LATENT PERIOD; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TAIL FLICK TEST; VIBRATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HYPERALGESIA; NEURONS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TAIL; VIBRATION;

EID: 80051879153     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.07.038     Document Type: Article

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