Fear memories require protein synthesis in the amygdala for reconsolidation after retrieval

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6797, 2000, Pages 722-726

  Nader, Karim ^a   Schafe, Glenn E ^a   Le Doux, Joseph E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; RECALL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034680134     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35021052     Document Type: Article

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