A selective role for corticosterone in contextual-fear conditioning

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 503-511

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; FEAR; FEMALE; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CORTICOSTERONE; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RATS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0030947184     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.3.503     Document Type: Article

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