Defensive conditioning-related functional heterogeneity among nuclei of the rat amygdala revealed by c-Fos mapping

Neuroscience

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 723-733

  Savonenko, A ^a,b   Filipkowski, R K ^a   Werka, T ^a   Zielinski, K ^a   Kaczmarek, L ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Emotional memory; Fear; Grooming; Instrumental conditioning; Time discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GROOMING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; ESCAPE REACTION; FEAR; GENES, FOS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0032876558     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00331-0     Document Type: Article

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