A comparison of activation patterns of cells in selected prefrontal cortical and amygdala areas of rats which are more or less anxious in response to predator exposure or submersion stress

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 628-638

  Adamec, Robert ^b   Toth, Mate ^a   Haller, Jozsef ^a   Halasz, Jozsef ^c   Blundell, Jacqueline ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c Vadaskert Child Psychiatry Hospital   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Anxiety; CFos; PTSD; Stress; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; MARKER; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; IMMERSION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDATOR STRESS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CATS; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 80155211063     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.09.016     Document Type: Article

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