Juvenile stress potentiates aversive 22-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations and freezing during auditory fear conditioning in adult male rats

Stress

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 533-544

  Yee, Nicole ^a   Schwarting, Rainer K W ^b   Fuchs, Eberhard ^a,c   Wöhr, Markus ^b  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

22 kHz; Anxiety; Fear; Fear conditioning; Freezing; Juvenile stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FREEZING; HABITUATION; JUVENILE STRESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; ULTRASONIC VOCALIZATION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGING; ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; FREEZING; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84859573294     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2011.646348     Document Type: Article

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