High and abnormal forms of aggression in rats with extremes in trait anxiety - Involvement of the dopamine system in the nucleus accumbens

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1969-1980

  Beiderbeck, Daniela I ^a   Reber, Stefan O ^a   Havasi, Andrea ^a   Bredewold, Remco ^a   Veenema, Alexa H ^a,b   Neumann, Inga D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormal aggression; Aggression; Anxiety; Dopamine; Neuronal activation; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

8 CHLORO 2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 3 METHYL 5 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPIN 7 OL HYDROGEN MALEATE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; HALOPERIDOL; LIDOCAINE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH ANXIETY RELATED BEHAVIOR RAT; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; LOW ANXIETY RELATED BEHAVIOR RAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NONSELECETD LOW AGGRESSIVE ANXIETY RELATED BEHAVIOR RAT; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHARMACOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSYCHOPATHY; RAT; RAT INTRUDER TEST; RAT STRAIN; RECEPTOR BINDING; REWARD;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, INBRED STRAINS; ANXIETY; BRAIN; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE;

EID: 84869861395     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.04.011     Document Type: Article

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