An antisense oligonucleotide reverses the footshock-induced expression of Fos in the rat medial prefrontal cortex and the subsequent expression of conditioned fear-induced immobility

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 5666-5673

  Morrow, Bret A ^a   Elsworth, John D ^a   Inglis, Fiona M ^a   Roth, Robert H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AP 1; c fos; Immediate early gene; Infralimbic cortex; Learning; Prelimbic cortex

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0033168305     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-13-05666.1999     Document Type: Article

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