Enhanced anxiety observed in cocaine withdrawn rats is associated with altered reactivity of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  El Hage, Cynthia ^a,b   Rappeneau, Virginie ^a,b   Etievant, Adeline ^b   Morel, Anne Laure ^a,b   Scarna, Hélène ^b   Zimmer, Luc ^a,b   Bérod, Anne ^a,b  

^a LYON NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DORSAL PRELIMBIC CORTEX; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GLUTAMATERGIC NERVE CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SHOCK PROBE BURYING TEST; SUCROSE PREFERENCE TEST; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; COCAINE; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 84865079490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043535     Document Type: Article

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