ITI-signals and prelimbic cortex facilitate avoidance acquisition and reduce avoidance latencies, respectively, in male WKY rats

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Beck, Kevin D ^a,b,c   Jiao, Xilu ^a,b,d   Smith, Ian M ^a,d   Myers, Catherine E ^a,b,c   Pang, Kevin C H ^a,b,c   Servatius, Richard J ^a,b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d War Related Injury and Illness Study Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety vulnerability; Conditioned inhibitor; Infralimbic cortex; Lever press avoidance; Prelimbic cortex; Safety signals

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FACILITATION; INFRALIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; RAT; RECOGNITION; SAFETY; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; VISUAL STIMULATION; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

EID: 84979953378     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00403     Document Type: Article

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