Activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and δFosB in emotion-associated neural circuitry after asymptotic levels of active avoidance behavior are attained

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 98, Issue , 2013, Pages 102-110

  Perrotti, Linda I ^a   Dennis, Torry S ^a   Jiao, Xilu ^c   Servatius, Richard J ^b,c   Pang, Kevin C H ^b,c   Beck, Kevin D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Dorsal striatum; Prefrontal cortex; Sprague Dawley; Wistar Kyoto

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOSB;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EMOTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; DORSAL STRIATUM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY; WISTAR KYOTO;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; CORPUS STRIATUM; ESCAPE REACTION; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883610335     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: 18732747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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