Altered conditioned fear behavior in glutamate decarboxylase 65 null mutant mice

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 65-70

  Stork, O ^a,b   Yamanaka, H ^a   Stork, S ^a,b   Kume, N ^a   Obata, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Defensive behavior; GABA; Glutamic acid decarboxylase isozyme; Knock out; Mouse; Pavlovian fear memory

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; ISOENZYME;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEFECATION; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; GENOTYPE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ENDOCRINE GLANDS; FEAR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; ISOENZYMES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, KNOCKOUT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0003203470     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1601-183X.2003.00008.x     Document Type: Article

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