Expression of N-methyl-D-aspartate (R)(GluN2B) - subunits in the brain structures of rats selected for low and high anxiety

Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 473-482

  Lehner, Malgorzata ^a   Wislowska Stanek, A ^b   Skorzewska, A ^a   Maciejak, P ^a,b   Szyndler, J ^b   Turzynska, D ^a   Sobolewska, A ^a   Krzascikb, P ^a   Plaznik, A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Brain; Conditioned fear; Fear extinction; Immunocytochemistry; Individual differences; N methyl D aspartate receptor GluN2B subunits; Re learning

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE COURSE; EMOTION; FEAR; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIGH ANXIETY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOW ANXIETY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 82155181574     PISSN: 08675910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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