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Modulation of Predator Cue-Evoked Tonic Immobility by Acetylcholine Released in the Basolateral Complex of the Amygdala

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (2018B030331001 and 2018B030338001), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31600860, 31630031, 31930047, and 91732304), the International Partnership Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (172644KYS820170004), the Key Laboratory of the CAS (2019DP173024), the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Science (XDB32030100), the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain Connectome and Behavior (2017B030301017), the Ten Thousand Talent Program, the Chang Jiang Scholars Program, the Guangdong Special Support Program, the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (2018A030313439), the Helmholtz-CAS joint research grant (GJHZ1508), the Shenzhen Government Basic Research Grants (JCYJ20170413164535041), and the Shenzhen Key Science and Technology Infrastructure Planning Project (ZDKJ20190204002). We would like to thank Dr. Yulong Li of Peking University for providing the GRabeen ACh3.0 plasmid.

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    Nan Liu, Kang Huang, Pengfei Wei, Xiaolei Liu & Liping Wang

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    Nan Liu, Kang Huang, Pengfei Wei & Liping Wang

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Liu, N., Huang, K., Wei, P. et al. Modulation of Predator Cue-Evoked Tonic Immobility by Acetylcholine Released in the Basolateral Complex of the Amygdala. Neurosci. Bull. 37, 1599–1604 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-021-00767-9

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