Somatostatin in the Pontine Reticular Formation Modulates Fear Potentiation of the Acoustic Startle Response: An Anatomical, Electrophysiological, and Behavioral Study

The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates

1982 • 53,055 citations

AChE-stained horizontal sections of the rat brain in stereotaxic coordinates

1980 • 4,422 citations

The Role of the Amygdala in Fear and Anxiety

1992 • 2,216 citations

A primary acoustic startle circuit: lesion and stimulation studies

1982 • 947 citations

Fear-potentiated startle: A neural and pharmacological analysis

1993 • 736 citations

Effects of amygdala, hippocampus, and periaqueductal gray lesions on short- and long-term contextual fear.

1993 • 580 citations

Connections between the central nucleus of the amygdala and the midbrain periaqueductal gray: Topography and reciprocity

1991 • 490 citations

The role of the amygdala in fear-potentiated startle: implications for animal models of anxiety

1992 • 425 citations

The Midbrain Periaqueductal Gray as a Coordinator of Action in Response to Fear and Anxiety

1991 • 387 citations

Neuroanatomy and neurotransmitter regulation of defensive behaviors and related emotions in mammals.

1994 • 336 citations

Role of the amygdala and periaqueductal gray in anxiety and panic

1993 • 303 citations

Efferent pathway of the amygdala involved in conditioned fear as measured with the fear-potentiated startle paradigm.

1991 • 299 citations

Giant neurons in the rat reticular formation: a sensorimotor interface in the elementary acoustic startle circuit?

1994 • 294 citations

Cholinergic neurons in the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus are involved in the mediation of prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response in the rat

1993 • 271 citations

Peptide immunoreactive neurons in the amygdala and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis project to the midbrain central gray in the rat

1992 • 259 citations

A direct projection from the central nucleus of the amygdala to the acoustic startle pathway: Anterograde and retrograde tracing studies.

1991 • 257 citations

Efferent pathway of the amygdala involved in conditioned fear as measured with the fear-potentiated startle paradigm.

1991 • 243 citations

Molecular pharmacology of somatostatin receptors

1994 • 216 citations

Enhancement of acoustic startle by electrical stimulation of the amygdala.

1988 • 174 citations

Molecular properties of somatostatin receptors

1995 • 162 citations

Loss of the acoustic startle response following neurotoxic lesions of the caudal pontine reticular formation: Possible role of giant neurons

1992 • 125 citations

Afferent connections of the nuclei reticularis pontis oralis and caudalis: A horseradish peroxidase study in the rat

1987 • 119 citations

Giant neurons in the caudal pontine reticular formation receive short latency acoustic input: An intracellular recording and HRP‐study in the rat

1992 • 114 citations

Distribution of messenger RNAs encoding enkephalin, substance P, somatostatin, galanin, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, neuropeptide Y, and calcitonin gene‐related peptide in the midbrain periaqueductal grey in the rat

1994 • 106 citations

Lesions of the central gray block the sensitization of the acoustic startle response in rats

1994 • 83 citations

Substance P is involved in the sensitization of the acoustic startle response by footshocks in rats

1994 • 82 citations

Enhancement of the acoustic startle response by stimulation of an excitatory pathway from the central amygdala/basal nucleus of Meynert to the pontine reticular formation

1993 • 80 citations

Fear-potentiated startle and electrically evoked startle mediated by synapses in rostrolateral midbrain.

1995 • 78 citations

Lesions of the central gray block conditioned fear as measured with the potentiated startle paradigm

1996 • 65 citations

Lack of a temporal gradient of retrograde amnesia in rats with amygdala lesions assessed with the fear-potentiated startle paradigm.

1993 • 59 citations

Involvement of the dorsal periaqueductal gray in the loss of fear-potentiated startle accompanying high footshock training.

1997 • 51 citations

Amygdala efferents mediating electrically evoked startle-like responses and fear potentiation of acoustic startle.

1993 • 49 citations

Lack of a temporal gradient of retrograde amnesia in rats with amygdala lesions assessed with the fear-potentiated startle paradigm.

1993 • 45 citations

Fear-potentiated startle and electrically evoked startle mediated by synapses in rostrolateral midbrain.

1995 • 43 citations

GLUTAMATE RECEPTORS MEDIATE ACOUSTIC INPUT TO THE RETICULAR BRAIN STEM

1992 • 42 citations

Amygdala efferents mediating electrically evoked startle-like responses and fear potentiation of acoustic startle.

1993 • 40 citations

Axons and synapses mediating electrically evoked startle: collision tests and latency analysis

1995 • 35 citations

Precise terminal fields of the descending somatostatinergic neuron system from the amygdaloid complex of the rat.

1983 • 34 citations

Substance P and other putative transmitters modulate the activity of reticular pontine neurons: an electrophysiological and immunohistochemical study

1994 • 33 citations

Somatostatin and leu-enkephalin in the rat auditory brainstem during fetal and postnatal development

1995 • 31 citations

Cholecystokinin enhances the acoustic startle response in rats

1995 • 29 citations