A role for brain glucocorticoid receptors in contextual fear conditioning: Dependence upon training intensity

Brain Research

Volumn 786, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 11-17

  Cordero, M Isabel ^a   Sandi, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid; Corticosterone; Fear conditioning; Learning; Memory; Rat; RU 38486; RU28318

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; FEAR; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; TRAINING;

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CORTICOSTERONE; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MIFEPRISTONE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SPIRONOLACTONE;

EID: 0032498834     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01420-0     Document Type: Article

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