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SUBMITTER: Yu B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4632128 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yu Bin B Cui Su-Ying SY Zhang Xue-Qiong XQ Cui Xiang-Yu XY Li Sheng-Jie SJ Sheng Zhao-Fu ZF Cao Qing Q Huang Yuan-Li YL Xu Ya-Ping YP Lin Zhi-Ge ZG Yang Guang G Song Jin-Zhi JZ Ding Hui H Zhang Yong-He YH
Scientific reports 20151104
Posttraumatic nightmares are a core component of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mechanistically linked to the development and maintenance of this disorder, but little is known about their mechanism. We utilized a communication box to establish an animal model of physiological stress (foot-shock [FS]) and psychological stress (PS) to mimic the direct suffering and witnessing of traumatic events. Twenty-one days after traumatic stress, some of the experimental animals presented startled ...[more]