Production of the Fos protein after contextual fear conditioning of C57BL/6N mice

Brain Research

Volumn 784, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 37-47

  Milanovic, Snezana ^a,b   Radulovic, Jelena ^a   Laban, Olgica ^a   Stiedl, Oliver ^a   Henn, Fritz ^b   Spiess, Joachim ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear conditioning; Fos production; Hippocampus; Parietal cortex; Stress

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PARIETAL LOBE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS;

EID: 0032536332     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01266-3     Document Type: Article

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