Centrally administered neuropeptide Y (NPY) produces anxiolytic-like effects in animal anxiety models

Validation of open : closed arm entries in an elevated plus-maze as a measure of anxiety in the rat

Sharon Pellow, Philippe Chopin, Sandra E. File et al. · Journal of Neuroscience Methods · 1985 · 5.8K citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +9

Neuropeptide Y (NPY)‐like immunoreactivity in peripheral noradrenergic neurons and effects of NPY on sympathetic function

Jan M. Lundberg, Lars Terenius, Tomas Hökfelt et al. · Acta Physiologica Scandinavica · 1982 · 1.2K citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +16

Inhibition of both noradrenergic and serotonergic neurons in brain by the α-adrenergic agonist clonidine

T.H. Svensson, B.S. Bunney, George K. Aghajanian · Brain Research · 1975 · 1K citations

Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +14

Effects of alpha-adrenoceptor agonists and antagonists in a maze-exploration model of ?fear?-motivated behaviour

Sheila L. Handley, Siddika Mithani · Naunyn-Schmiedeberg s Archives of Pharmacology · 1984 · 960 citations

Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +13

The relation between fear induced by novel stimulation and exploratory drive.

K. C. Montgomery · Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology · 1955 · 917 citations

Agriculture, Neuroscience, Psychology +14