Mesocortical dopamine depletion and anxiety-related behavior in the rat: Sex and hemisphere differences

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue , 2014, Pages 59-66

  Sullivan, R M ^a   Dufresne, M M ^a   Siontas, D ^a   Chehab, S ^a   Townsend, J ^a   Laplante, F ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cerebral lateralization; Depression; Predator odor burying test; Risk assessment; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DOPAMINE; OXIDOPAMINE; SUGAR INTAKE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; APPETITE; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CATECHOLAMINE DEPLETION; CONDITIONED RESPONSE ANXIETY TEST; CONDITIONED TASTE AVERSION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; EMOTIONALITY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; INCIDENCE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR ODOR DEFENSIVE BURYING TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUCROSE PREFERENCE TEST; UPREGULATION; YOUNG ADULT; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; EXERCISE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SUGAR INTAKE; TASTE;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; DIETARY SUCROSE; DOPAMINE; ESTROUS CYCLE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXIDOPAMINE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84902472623     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: 18784216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2014.05.002     Document Type: Article

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