Freezing to the predator odor 2,4,5 dihydro 2,5 trimethylthiazoline (TMT) is disrupted by olfactory bulb removal but not trigeminal deafferentation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 253, Issue , 2013, Pages 54-59

  Ayers, Luke W ^a   Asok, Arun ^a   Heyward, Frankie D ^a,b   Rosen, Jeffrey B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Butyric acid; Olfactory bulb; Predator odor; TMT; Trigeminal nerve

Indexed keywords

2,4,5 TRIMETHYL 3 THIAZOLINE; BUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FREEZING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY BULBECTOMY; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

BUTYRIC ACID; OLFACTORY BULB; PREDATOR ODOR; TMT; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BUTYRIC ACID; DENERVATION; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THIAZOLES; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 84880819888     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.06.034     Document Type: Article

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