Fos-like immunoreactivity in locus coeruleus after classical conditioning of the rabbit's nictitating membrane response

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-36

  Carrive, Pascal ^a   Kehoe, E James ^a   Macrae, Michaela ^a   Paxinos, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Classical conditioning; Fos; Lateral paragigantocellular nucleus; Learning; Locus coeruleus; Nictitating membrane

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; LOCUS CERULEUS; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS COERULEUS; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RABBITS;

EID: 0031051080     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)13395-X     Document Type: Article

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