Post-training injections of catecholaminergic drugs do not modulate fear conditioning in rats and mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 303, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 123-126

  Lee, Hongjoo J ^a   Berger, Samantha Y ^a   Stiedl, Oliver ^b   Spiess, Joachim ^b   Kim, Jeansok J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion; Fear; Freezing; Inhibitory avoidance; Memory consolidation; Memory modulation

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE DERIVATIVE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EMOTION; FEAR; FREEZING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADRENERGIC AGONISTS; ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AMPHETAMINE; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATECHOLAMINES; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EPINEPHRINE; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 0035805397     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)01733-5     Document Type: Article

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