Effects of electrical lesion of basolateral amygdala nucleus on rat anxiety‐like behaviour under acute, sub‐chronic, and chronic stresses

• Published in: Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 470 - 479
• Main Authors: Ranjbar, Hoda, Radahmadi, Maryam, Reisi, Parham, Alaei, Hojjatallah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Australia Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.04.2017
• Subjects: adrenal glands; Adrenal Glands - pathology; Animals; anxiety; Anxiety - blood; Anxiety - complications; Anxiety - pathology; basolateral amygdala; Basolateral Nuclear Complex - pathology; Body Weight; Electricity - adverse effects; Lesions; Locomotor activity; Male; Malondialdehyde - blood; open field test; Organ Size; rat; Rats; Rats, Wistar; Risk factors; stress; Stress, Psychological - complications; Time Factors; anxiety; stress; basolateral amygdala; rat; open field test; adrenal glands

Summary Stress contributes, as a risk factor, to such psychological disorders as anxiety. The effects of electrical lesions in the basolateral amygdala nucleus (BLA) were investigated on the locomotor activity and anxiety‐like behaviour in different stress durations. For this purpose, rats were rand...