Dorsal premammillary nucleus differentially modulates defensive behaviors induced by different threat stimuli in rats

@article{Blanchard2003DorsalPN,
  title={Dorsal premammillary nucleus differentially modulates defensive behaviors induced by different threat stimuli in rats},
  author={D. Caroline Blanchard and Chun I Li and David T Hubbard and Chris M. Markham and Mu Yang and Lorey K. Takahashi and Robert J. Blanchard},
  journal={Neuroscience Letters},
  year={2003},
  volume={345},
  pages={145-148}
}
Lesions of the dorsal premammillary nucleus (PMd) have been reported to produce dramatic reductions in responsivity of rats to a live cat. Such lesions provide a means of analyzing the potentially differential neural systems involved in different defensive behaviors, and the relationship between these systems and concepts such as anxiety. Rats with bilateral electrolytic lesions of the PMd were run in an elevated plus maze (EPM), exposed first to cat odor and then to a live cat, and assessed… Expand
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Evidence suggests that the locus coeruleus is seemingly a part of the circuit responding to predatory threats, and, as shown by the present results, is the sole source of catecholaminergic inputs to the PMd, providing noradrenergic Inputs to the nucleus, which, by acting via beta adrenoceptor, seems to be critical for the expression of anti-predatory responses. Expand
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Electrophysiological recordings of single units in behaving mice exposed to a rat are used to investigate the encoding of predator fear in the dorsomedial division of the ventromedial hypothalamus and the dorsal periaqueductal grey, suggesting a distributed encoding of sensory and motor features in the medial hypothalamic-brainstem instinctive network. Expand
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