Generalization of fear responses in C57BL/6N mice subjected to one- trial foreground contextual fear conditioning

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 179-189

  Radulovic, Jelena ^a   Kammermeier, Jens ^a   Spiess, Joachim ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Balb c; C57BL 6J; C57BL 6N; Contextual fear conditioning; Generalization; Strains

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEAR; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031695813     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00039-4     Document Type: Article

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