Exposure to a conditioned aversive environment interferes with long- term potentiation induction in the fimbria-CA3 pathway

Neuroscience

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 139-145

  Garcia, R ^a   Tocco, G ^b   Baudry, M ^b   Thompson, R F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned aversive environment; Fimbria; Hippocampus; Long term potentiation; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHOCK;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0030920416     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00285-6     Document Type: Article

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