Immediate-early gene expression in the amygdala following footshock stress and contextual fear conditioning

Brain Research

Volumn 796, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 132-142

  Rosen, Jeffrey B ^a   Fanselow, Michael S ^b   Young, Stacey L ^c   Sitcoske, Martina ^d   Maren, Stephen ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; c fos; Conditioning; Fear; NGFI A; zif268

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; RECEPTOR OCCUPANCY; SHOCK; STRESS;

EID: 0032526540     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00294-7     Document Type: Article

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