Metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 7 ablation causes deficit in fear response and conditioned taste aversion

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 955-963

  Masugi, Miwako ^a   Yokoi, Mineto ^a   Shigemoto, Ryuichi ^a   Muguruma, Keiko ^b   Watanabe, Yasuyoshi ^b   Sansig, Gilles ^c   Van Der Putten, Herman ^c   Nakanishi, Shigetada ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA BIOSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Conditioned taste aversion; Fear response; Knockout mice; Metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 7; Presynaptic receptor

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; SACCHARIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEAR; FREEZING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNOCKOUT GENE; MALAISE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASTE AVERSION;

EID: 0033080903     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-03-00955.1999     Document Type: Article

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