Dopaminergic mechanisms underlying catalepsy, fear and anxiety: Do they interact?

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 257, Issue , 2013, Pages 201-207

  Colombo, Ana Caroline ^a,b   De Oliveira, Amanda Ribeiro ^a,b   Reimer, Adriano Edgar ^a,b   Brandão, Marcus Lira ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Campus USP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Catalepsy; Conditioned fear; Haloperidol; Open field; Ultrasound vocalization

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; HALOPERIDOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CATALEPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DRUG MECHANISM; FEAR; FIELD EMISSION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; TRAINING; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND VOCALIZATION; VOCALIZATION; WISTAR RAT;

CATALEPSY; CONDITIONED FEAR; HALOPERIDOL; OPEN-FIELD; ULTRASOUND VOCALIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CATALEPSY; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; HALOPERIDOL; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84886406225     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.10.002     Document Type: Article

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