Pretraining tetanic fimbrial stimulation impairs the expression but not the acquisition of contextual fear conditioning in mice

Neuroscience

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 869-876

  Vouimba, R M ^a   Garcia, R ^a   Jaffard, R ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Contextual fear conditioning; Depotentiation; Fimbria; Lateral septum; Long term potentiation; Mouse

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEAR; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SHOCK; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

EID: 0032780451     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00272-9     Document Type: Article

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