Cat odor causes long-lasting contextual fear conditioning and increased pituitary-adrenal activation, without modifying anxiety.

Muñoz-Abellán, Cristina; Daviu, Nuria; Rabasa, Cristina; Nadal, Roser; Armario, Antonio

Muñoz-Abellán, Cristina; Daviu, Nuria; Rabasa, Cristina; Nadal, Roser; Armario, Antonio.

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Muñoz-Abellán C; Institute of Neurosciences, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.

Horm Behav ; 56(4): 465-71, 2009 Oct.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19699202

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Anxiety/physiopathology; Conditioning, Classical/physiology; Fear/physiology; Odorants; Olfactory Perception/physiology; Pituitary-Adrenal System/physiology; Adrenocorticotropic Hormone/blood; Animals; Avoidance Learning/physiology; Cats; Corticosterone/blood; Environment; Male; Maze Learning/physiology; Physical Stimulation; Pituitary-Adrenal System/physiopathology; Random Allocation; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Time Factors

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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Anxiety / Pituitary-Adrenal System / Conditioning, Classical / Olfactory Perception / Fear / Odorants Type of study: Etiology_studies Limits: Animals Language: En Journal: Horm Behav Year: 2009 Type: Article Affiliation country: Spain

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