Auditory thalamus, dorsal hippocampus, basolateral amygdala, and perirhinal cortex role in the consolidation of conditioned freezing to context and to acoustic conditioned stimulus in the rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 9570-9578

  Sacchetti, Benedetto ^a   Lorenzini, Carlo Ambrogi ^a   Baldi, Elisabetta ^a   Tassoni, Giovanna ^a   Bucherelli, Corrado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Auditory thalamus; Basolateral amygdala; Consolidation; CS and context freezing; Dorsal hippocampus; Perirhinal cortex; Reversible tetrodotoxin inactivation

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHOCK; THALAMUS;

EID: 0033232532     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-21-09570.1999     Document Type: Article

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