Impaired conditioned fear response and startle reactivity in epinephrine-deficient mice

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-9

  Toth, Mate ^a   Ziegler, Michael ^b   Sun, Ping ^b   Gresack, Jodi ^a   Risbrough, Victoria ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic startle; arousal; conditioned fear; epinephrine; memory; mouse; phenylethanolamine N methyltransferase; prepulse inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; CATECHOLAMINE DEPLETION; COGNITION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EPINEPHRINE DEFICIENCY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FREEZING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOCKOUT GENE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PREPULSE INHIBITION; RECOGNITION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STARTLE REFLEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; WILD TYPE;

ADRENERGIC NEURONS; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; EPINEPHRINE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STARTLE REACTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84872078340     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: 14735849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e32835cf408     Document Type: Article

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