Hippocampal lesions impair contextual fear conditioning in two strains of mice

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1177-1180

  Chen, Chong ^a   Kim, Jeansok J ^b   Thompson, Richard F ^b   Tonegawa, Susumu ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0029957561     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.5.1177     Document Type: Article

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