Type II glucocorticoid receptor antagonists impair contextual but not auditory-cue fear conditioning in juvenile rats

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-79

  Pugh, C Rachal ^a   Fleshner, Monika ^a   Rudy, Jerry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID ANTAGONIST; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MIFEPRISTONE; RU 40555; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030815148     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1996.3741     Document Type: Article

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