Retrograde abolition of conditional fear after excitotoxic lesions in the basolateral amygdala of rats: Absence of a temporal gradient

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 718-726

  Maren, Stephen ^a,b   Aharonov, Gal ^a   Fanselow, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITOTOXIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEAR; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; SHOCK;

EID: 0029838135     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.4.718     Document Type: Article

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