Fos expression following regimens of predator stress versus footshock that differentially affect prepulse inhibition in rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 796-803

  Baisley, Sarah K ^b   Cloninger, Christina L ^a,c   Bakshi, Vaishali P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

C fos; Immediate early gene; Predator; Psychogenic; Trauma

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERRET; FOOTSHOCK; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL AMYGDALA; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREDATOR STRESS; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SENSORY GATING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROSHOCK; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 80051890144     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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