Priming of Long-Term Potentiation in Mouse Hippocampus by Corticotropin-Releasing Factor and Acute Stress: Implications for Hippocampus-Dependent Learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 3788-3794

  Blank, Thomas ^a   Nijholt, Ingrid ^a   Eckart, Klaus ^a   Spiess, Joachim ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

CaMKII; Classical fear conditioning; h rCRF; LTP; Neuronal excitability; PKC; Priming

Indexed keywords

1 [N,O BIS(5 ISOQUINOLINESULFONYL) N METHYLTYROSYL] 4 PHENYLPIPERAZINE; BISINDOLYLMALEIMIDE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN) II; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN KINASE C INHIBITOR; CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; ENZYME INHIBITOR; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN); RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; EXERCISE TEST; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; STRESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EXERCISE TEST; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROTEIN KINASE C; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STRESS;

EID: 0036581331     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-09-03788.2002     Document Type: Article

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