Differential hippocampal neuron density between inbred Roman high- (low anxious) and low-avoidance (high anxious) rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 522, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-46

  Garcia Falgueras, A ^a,b   Castillo Ruiz, M M ^a   Put, T ^b   Tobena A ^a   Fernandez Teruel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; CA1; CA2; CA3; Cingulated cortex; Hippocampus; Learning; Roman rat strains

Indexed keywords

NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TOLONIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CELL DENSITY; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CELL COUNT; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84863785909     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.06.011     Document Type: Article

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