Contextual fear conditioning is associated with an increase of acetylcholine release in the hippocampus of rat

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 193-197

  Nail Boucherie, K ^a   Dourmap, N ^a   Jaffard, R ^b   Costentin, J ^a  

^a U de Neuropsychopharmacologie Exp   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine release; Contextual fear conditioning; Foot shock; Hippocampus; Rat

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHOCK;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0034061720     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(99)00058-0     Document Type: Article

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