Intrahippocampal infusions of a metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonist block the memory of context-specific but not tone-specific conditioned fear

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 222-227

  Frohardt, Russell J ^a   Guarraci, Fay A ^b   Young, Stacey L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b NONE

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Indexed keywords

METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAINING; WATER DEPRIVATION;

EID: 0033064953     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.1.222     Document Type: Article

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