Control over stress, but not stress per Se increases prefrontal cortical pyramidal neuron excitability

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 37, 2012, Pages 12848-12853

  Varela, Juan A ^a   Wang, Jungang ^a   Christianson, John P ^a   Maier, Steven F ^a   Cooper, Donald C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; COMPUTER MODEL; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SODIUM CONDUCTANCE; SPIKE WAVE; STRESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ESCAPE REACTION; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84866252979     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2669-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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