Paradoxical mineralocorticoid receptor-mediated effect in fear memory encoding and expression of rats submitted to an olfactory fear conditioning task

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 79, Issue , 2014, Pages 201-211

  Souza, Rimenez R ^a   Dal Bó, Silvia ^b   De Kloet, E Ronald ^c,d   Oitzl, Melly S ^e   Carobrez, Antonio P ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO EXTREMO SUL CATARINENSE   (Brazil)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coping strategy; Fear memory encoding; Mineralocorticoid receptor; Olfactory fear conditioning; Risk assessment behavior; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; FLUDROCORTISONE; MINERALOCORTICOID ANTAGONIST; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEAR; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; AGONISTS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CONDITIONING; DRUG EFFECTS; MEMORY; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SMELLING; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CORTICOSTERONE; FEAR; FLUDROCORTISONE; MALE; MEMORY; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; SPIRONOLACTONE;

EID: 84890538762     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: 18737064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2013.11.017     Document Type: Article

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