Corticosterone modulates fear responses and the expression of glucocorticoid receptors in the brain of high-anxiety rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 533, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-22

  Wislowska Stanek A ^a   Lehner, M ^b   Skorzewska A ^b   Maciejak, P ^a,b   Szyndler, J ^a   Turzynska D ^b   Sobolewska, A ^b   Plaznik A ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Conditioned freezing; Corticosterone; Dentate gyrus; Glucocorticoid receptors; High and low anxiety rats; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EMOTION; FEAR; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BRAIN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CORTICOSTERONE; FEAR; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID;

EID: 84871694171     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.11.012     Document Type: Article

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