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BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
Volume 134, Issue 1-2, Pages 387-392Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00061-X
Keywords
learned helplessness; controllability; stress; anxiety; depression; serotonin; animal models
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- NIMH NIH HHS [MH00314, MH50479] Funding Source: Medline
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Previous research has shown that the effect of exposure to uncontrollable stressors on conditioned fear responding and escape behavior in rats is dependent on serotonergic neural activity in the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN). The role that norepinephrine released in the DRN plays in producing the behavioral consequences of exposure to inescapable tail shock in rats was investigated in the present study. The selective alphal adrenoreceptor antagonist benoxathian was injected into the DRN before exposure to inescapable tail shock or before behavioral testing conducted 24 h later. Benoxathian prevented the impairment of escape responding produced by inescapable shock, but did not reverse this effect when given before testing. The enhancement of conditioned fear produced by prior inescapable shock was attenuated by benoxathian administered before inescapable shock or before behavioral testing. These results support the view that noradrenergic input to the DRN is necessary to produce the behavioral effects of inescapable tail shock. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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