Gut vagal afferents differentially modulate innate anxiety and learned fear

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 7067-7076

  Klarer, Melanie ^a   Arnold, Myrtha ^a   Günther, Lydia ^b   Winter, Christine ^b   Langhans, Wolfgang ^a   Meyer, Urs ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Fear; GABA; Gut feelings; Vagus nerve

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CORTICOSTERONE; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY WEIGHT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; FEAR; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INNATE ANXIETY; INTESTINE; LEARNED FEAR; MALE; NEOPHOBIA; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SENSORY NERVE; VAGUS NERVE;

ANXIETY; FEAR; GABA; GUT FEELINGS; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EATING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SINCALIDE; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 84901045104     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0252-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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