Lesions of the Fasciculus Retroflexus Alter Footshock-Induced cFos Expression in the Mesopontine Rostromedial Tegmental Area of Rats

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Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Brown, Paul Leon ^a,b   Shepard, Paul D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; FASCICULUS RETROFLEXUS DAMAGE; FOOTSHOCK; HABENULA; MALE; MESOPONTINE ROSTROMEDIAL TEGMENTAL AREA; NONHUMAN; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; ELECTROSHOCK; HABENULA; MALE; PONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

RATTUS;

EID: 84876074520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060678     Document Type: Article

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