An infusion of bupivacaine into the nucleus accumbens disrupts the acquisition but not the expression of contextual fear conditioning

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 925-940

  Haralambous, Tatiana ^b   Westbrook, R Frederick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0033510351     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.5.925     Document Type: Article

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