Metabotropic glutamate receptors are involved in amygdaloid plasticity

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1535-1541

  Fendt, Markus ^a   Schmid, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear conditioning; Learning; MPEP; Startle

Indexed keywords

2 METHYL 6 (PHENYLETHYNYL)PYRIDINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEAR; INDANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PYRIDINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0036460427     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.01988.x     Document Type: Article

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