A role for amygdaloid PKA and PKC in the acquisition of long-term conditional fear memories in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 145-152

  Goosens, Ki A ^a   Holt, William ^a   Maren, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Context; Fear conditioning; Kinase; Learning; LTP; Memory; Tone

Indexed keywords

1 (5 ISOQUINOLINESULFONYL) 2 METHYLPIPERAZINE; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE C;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEAR; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHOCK; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

1-(5-ISOQUINOLINESULFONYL)-2-METHYLPIPERAZINE; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEAR; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; PROTEIN KINASE C; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0034283284     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00224-2     Document Type: Article

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