Acquisition of fear conditioning in rats requires the synthesis of mRNA in the amygdala

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 276-282

  Bailey, David J ^a   Sun, William ^b   Thompson, Richard F ^b   Kim, Jeansok J ^b   Helmstetter, Fred J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DACTINOMYCIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; MALE; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DACTINOMYCIN; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0032921393     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.2.276     Document Type: Article

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