Startle response memory and hippocampal changes in adult zebrafish pharmacologically-induced to exhibit anxiety/depression-like behaviors

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 123, Issue , 2014, Pages 174-179

  Pittman, Julian T ^a   Lott, Chad S ^a  

^a TROY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Memory; Psychopharmacology; Startle response; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; FLUOXETINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAMMAL; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; RESEARCH; SCREENING; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; STARTLE REFLEX; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TRAINING; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; UPREGULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; MEMORY; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; STARTLE RESPONSE; ZEBRAFISH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; ANXIETY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FLUOXETINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; SEROTONIN; STARTLE REACTION; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84887508027     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2013.10.023     Document Type: Article

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