Inactivation of the prelimbic rather than infralimbic cortex impairs acquisition and expression of formalin-induced conditioned place avoidance

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 569, Issue , 2014, Pages 89-93

  Jiang, Zhao Cai ^a,b   Pan, Qi ^c   Zheng, Chun ^a,b,d   Deng, Xiao Fei ^a,b   Wang, Jin Yan ^a   Luo, Fei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Conditioned place avoidance; Expression; Pain emotion; Prefrontal cortex; Rats

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; MUSCIMOL; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONED PLACE AVOIDANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFRALIMBIC CORTEX; LICKING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DRUG EFFECTS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FORMALDEHYDE; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; MALE; MUSCIMOL; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84898971321     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.03.074     Document Type: Article

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