Noradrenergic blockade stabilizes prefrontal activity and enables fear extinction under stress

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 28, 2015, Pages E3729-E3737

  Fitzgerald, Paul J ^a   Giustino, Thomas F ^a   Seemann, Jocelyn R ^a   Maren, Stephen ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction; Fear; Prefrontal cortex; Propranolol; Rat

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; PROPRANOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG STABILITY; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; INFRALIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SPIKE; TRAINING; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; DRUG EFFECTS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT;

RATTUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; NOREPINEPHRINE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROPRANOLOL; RATS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84945749137     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1500682112     Document Type: Article

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